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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!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.
Daniel Clowes
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Daniel Clowes
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
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I knew how to draw all of the different smokestacks on the old trains and all that stuff, and then I realized that if I can draw trains, which is the thing I was probably the least interested in in the world at the time, I can do anything and find a way into it that will be interesting.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.
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