Daniel Clowes Quotes
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We need to lift up the nation so we can find a more civil way to deal with our disagreements because, in these United States of America, no one should ever feel their life threatened over their political beliefs and positions.
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In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.
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I now see the necessity of a beginning.
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I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.
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Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
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Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
