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Jeff Vandermeer Quotes

When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest.

Jeff Vandermeer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 7, 1968

Topics

Character Rest Speak Reality You

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

Jimmy Wales

Yourself You Want See Error Set

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

Anna Freud

Live Me Judge Enjoy Without Being

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Jean Genet

Elegance Harmony Bad Achieve Height

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.

Michael Hutchence

Me Loved Feel Fame Wanted Anybody

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

Robert B. Laughlin

Home Childhood Cotton Fields Wheat

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Robert W. Service

Wisdom Debt Promise Made Unpaid

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

Jose Rizal

Destination Look Back Know Never He

Simplicity - that's what I want. It's been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being able to hang out with my girl, read the newspaper, and sit back and start to read a book by someone I admire, like Lawrence Krauss or Christopher Hitchens. And that's it - simplicity, where the game of Hollywood doesn't exist.

Johnny Depp

Girl Simplicity Me Start Book Game

My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.

DMX

Day Me Mom Clothes Three Meals

It's different for different people, and for a woman it's important to look as good she wants to look. But you don't need to do it for someone else or to impress some male out there. You do it for your own sake. You wear what makes you feel good, you put make-up and jewellery - whatever gives you self-confidence.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Good Woman People Feel Good Someone

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

Bryan Adams

I Am Think Better Camera Behind Am

Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don't do it for the sake of fun. Actors such as Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah are great examples; they are surviving only because they have read well.

Boman Irani

Business Science Great Art Fun