Dave Gibbons Quotes
One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw it as the writer takes to write it. In my career I've had to spend a week drawing something that a writer has thrown out in an hour. And there's nothing worse than having to work on something that no previous thought has gone into.
Quotes to Explore
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.
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Laws are silent in time of war.
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Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence.
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One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.
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In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
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One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw it as the writer takes to write it. In my career I've had to spend a week drawing something that a writer has thrown out in an hour. And there's nothing worse than having to work on something that no previous thought has gone into.
