- Good People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest.
- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jeff VanderMeer's fiction has always been entrancingly, engagingly, enthusiastically weird, a winning combination of mimesis and the fantastical that privileges neither component: perhaps the very definition of that mode categorized as the 'New Weird' and exemplified most famously by the groundbreaking work of China Mieville.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes Batman and what makes other superheroes work is the myth that when life is at its lowest, and when you need a hero, a hero swings down and helps you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing a script about the Joker menacing a regular person who had strayed into his path, and I needed to give him a gang of henchmen to work with him. The idea occurred to me, let's put in a female henchperson, because that seemed like a fun variation on the regular big thug guys.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as doing a TV special, I would have to be in control of it. I'd want my own team of animators to work on it.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great fondness for any character I work on. Whether it's somebody like Batman or Harley Quinn or whatever character I'm writing, I just really enjoy the heck out of it, and I try to do the best job I can with it.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jeph Loeb has been great to work with, and he's been really supportive of some really bizarre ideas I've had.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jim Henson once allowed me to visit the Muppets on set and spent an entire day showing me how he and the other puppeteers performed Kermit and all the characters! After that, I was lucky enough to work with both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on many fun animation projects and learned so much from them.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020