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 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 think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.
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The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
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For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too.
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The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.
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I dated this guy who literally would never eat a single vegetable. I was like, 'This is terrible. You eat like a five-year-old.'
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If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
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One of the things that I think is special about DJing is creating this atmosphere of collectiveness, as if to say, 'We're all in this together.'
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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.
