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It keeps me moving when I see people doing stuff that I see as my direction. I think, Oh, it's been tainted. Now I've got to do something new. There's nothing worse than working on your own stuff and thinking that someone else is following you along.

Daniel Clowes

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Daniel Clowes
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
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I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.
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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.
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I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.
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Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.
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Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.
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I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.
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I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.
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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 and find some spiritual connection in the deeper reality of our mutual desire.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. I say this as someone who would rather read comics than watch movies, listen to music, anything. But it's not an operatic medium. I hear other people talk about being moved to tears by comics. I can't imagine that.
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You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.
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In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
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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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