Chris Ware Quotes
The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I want to have a long career.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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War is the province of danger.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
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I never felt my career was going backwards.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.
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My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
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The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.
