Jeff Lemire Quotes

I think when science fiction is at its worst, it's just spaceships flying around shooting at each other. There has to be a lot more going on than that... science fiction is about exploring new worlds and new ideas, not about ray guns and action, necessarily.

Jeff Lemire

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: March 21, 1976

Topics

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I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

Jim Brown

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To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work.

Michael Hastings

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Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

Roddy Doyle

GoodIdeasBetterGood IdeasOften

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.

Diana Ross

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I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

Douglas Wood

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If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.

Cliff Chiang

CareEmptyPrettyVisualRelate

I've worn stilettos since I was 12, so I have abused my feet to the point of no return.

Cobie Smulders

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I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

Brian K. Vaughan

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When you throw your hands up in the air like you just don't care, you're doing 'The Fly' by Chubby Checker!

Chubby Checker

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The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Chuck Jones

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Aristotle

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