Daniel Clowes Quotes
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!
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The thing that was most constant when I was growing up was just complete support and adoration from my parents.
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I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.
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I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
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In my life, there are two things I've found I'm very good at: overcoming obstacles and motivating good people to do their best work.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
