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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So, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer.
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When I write I find a quiet place.
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During their service, men and women in our Armed Forces live by a common creed, promising never to leave a soldier behind. We should live by the same principle. When our veterans are asked to travel hundreds of miles for care that's offered right next door, we simply aren't living up to that standard, and something has to change.
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I often feel lonely, but I never do while I am on stage… The public is my drug.
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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.
