Daniel Clowes Quotes

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• I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
• I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
• I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
• I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
• I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
• I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
• I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.
• I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
• In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every…
• In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!'…
• I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence…
• Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!
• The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost…
• Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school…
• The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really…
• Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
• People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
• When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
• When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
• Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.

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