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I'm not a professional comedian. Nobody comes to my comedy shows. That's just a little hobby.
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David Rees
#Comedian
#Hobbies
#Littles
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Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to it but I don't want to be a confessional performer...
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David Rees
#Talking
#Want
#Performers
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I don't like when performers rag on their ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend in absentia. If they're not there, it just feels rude... I'm never going to say anything personal about myself on stage. That's my new goal.
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David Rees
#Girlfriend
#Ex Boyfriend
#Goal
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Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.
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David Rees
#Mean
#Laughing
#Make You Smile
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Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.
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David Rees
#Teeth
#Use
#Should
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I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.
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David Rees
#Sweat
#Robots
#Taste
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I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.
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David Rees
#Discovery
#Feels
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I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.
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David Rees
#Fun
#Would Be
#Wanted
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I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.
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David Rees
#Stuff
#Making Money
#Felt
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To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about real stuff, like terror atrocities and human rights abuses and pencil-sharpening techniques.
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David Rees
#Jobs
#Real
#Rights
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The thing I hear about a lot is when people over-sharpen their pencil with a single-blade pocket-sharpener and then when they put the pencil to the page, their tip breaks and pencil points always break irregularly. It always gets all jagged and you have to refresh the point. That's a common complaint.
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David Rees
#People
#Pockets
#Pages
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The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.
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David Rees
#Way
#Making Money
#Virtuous
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Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.
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David Rees
#House
#Matter
#Hips
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It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'
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David Rees
#Grandchildren
#Would Be
#Yeah
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The things I'm grateful for are: I had the one thing that I feel really lucky about, which is that I made something, I made art, that truly - in a weird way - truly comforted me and comforted a lot of people. And I'm really grateful that I got to have that experience.
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David Rees
#Art
#Grateful
#People
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The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.
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David Rees
#Powerful
#Real
#Moving
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I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.
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David Rees
#Art
#Interesting
#Want
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I like feeling like I'm discovering something new. That's really a special feeling and also, you don't have it that often. At least, I don't. Maybe I'm not creative enough.
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David Rees
#Creative
#Feelings
#Special
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I hate self-publishing; it's a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.
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David Rees
#Hate
#Real
#Self
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I had good relationships with stores. And I was like, "All right, I'll self-publish it. But I'm only going to do 1,000."
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David Rees
#Self
#Good Relationship
#Stores
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I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity.
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David Rees
#Profanity
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I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me on my website.
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David Rees
#Self
#Years
#Obscure
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Any working cartoonist will tell you this, anybody who's working in a creative field: at some point, it's a job. You have deadlines. I think, for over a year, I refused to make them for publications, because I only wanted to make them when I wanted to make them. But at some point, I was like, "This is crazy, you have an opportunity to be a professional cartoonist.
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David Rees
#Jobs
#Crazy
#Opportunity
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I would make a comic for Rolling Stone every two weeks, because they're biweekly. And then I would make weekly comics for my weekly papers. It was on two parallel tracks. And then they all got collected in a book.
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David Rees
#Book
#Two
#Track
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Obviously, I never had to sketch anything out. To me, that was the appeal of working with clip art, working digitally. You make it and it's done.
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David Rees
#Art
#Done
#Clip
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I just wanted a really simple, dramatic way so that fans, people who were reading my comic, would be like, "This is something different." Just to flag it, almost.
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David Rees
#Reading
#Simple
#People
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I have very limited craftsmanship. And a lot of the stuff I make plays on that.
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David Rees
#Play
#Stuff
#Craftsmanship
