"It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means."

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Source : "Clowes Speak" by Tad Friend, July 30, 2001.

Daniel Clowes

#Book Quotes #Mean Quotes #Adults Quotes

“The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.”
“Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way.”
“In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.”
“You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses”
“The theory of marketing is solid but the practice of marketing leaves much to be desired.”
“I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.”
“Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.”

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