Dave Gibbons Quotes
I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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To me, my business is my life.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.
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How I dressed in high school is the way we dressed.
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It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
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I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.
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I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.
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The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness
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I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.
