Dave Sim Quotes

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Responsibility
  • Best
  • Story

• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Latin
  • France

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Spring
  • Year

• The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Together
  • Science
  • Interesting

• I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Good
  • Movie
  • You

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Battle

• We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Innovation
  • Development

• When I was a kid, I was super shy.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Kid
  • Shy
  • Super

• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation

• Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Work
  • Women
  • Everything

• Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Cool
  • Being
  • Status

• Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Science
  • Body
  • Human

• I feel like, you know, some people like to wear colorful stuff. Some people like to be blacked down, and some people just want to be colorful. Some people just have weird problems. I'm never going to wear a pink sweater. Some people just do it because they feel like they can do it.

  

  Karim Kharbouch
  • People
  • Weird
  • Pink

• In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Political
  • Gay

• New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Book
  • Song
  • Chicago

• I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Life
  • Work
  • Networking

• I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.

  

  Cherry Jones
  • Work
  • Lazy

• 'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

  

  Dave Sim
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