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 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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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
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You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.'
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A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.
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Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.
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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.
