Daniel Clowes Quotes
That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
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I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
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I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.
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What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
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You should dress so that you feel confident.
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Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.
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Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
