Daniel Clowes Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I was an expert horseman.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
