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 have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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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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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.
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You can have great players, but if they dont want to be coached, what are you going to do?
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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Even if I didn't know Eric, I still think he would be my celebrity crush. He's so freakin' gorgeous.
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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.
