Daniel Clowes Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.
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I think if you're really good at what you do, you can see outside the box.
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The thing I find really special in performance is that there is this slightly mystical thing that takes over when you're responding to a crowd and engaging in people's imaginations collectively in a room. I've always thought that one of the most incredible things about being alive is going to see some kind of performance like that.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
