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Chris Ware

"Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford to be. It's really an uncomfortable situation, since I'm not an illustrator, though I do get calls from morally indefensible businesses offering me money to decorate their ambitions. It's extremely rare, almost unheard of, in fact, that I am asked to do a comic strip. Do writers get calls to pen Toyota advertisements? Do composers get asked to write chamber pieces about exercise machines?"

Chris Ware

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“I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in the last 20 years and the response I have to give them is that I still consider myself a student. The more pictures I've made in 20 years, the more I realize I really don't know. And I'm always looking for something or someone that I could learn from.Â I tell the younger filmmakers, and the young students, that do it like painters used to doâ€”that painters doâ€”study the old masters, enrich your palette, expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.”
“It would be preposterously naive to suggest that a B.A. can be made as attractive to girls as a marriage license.”
“In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.”

Source : Sandra Oh moves from 'Sideways' to TV, www.today.com. March 22, 2005.
“A wedding is no way to begin a marriage.”

Source : Lois Greiman (2007). “Unmanned”, p.42, Dell
“Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.”
“May God's richest blessings be upon you both today and throughout the year and may those blessings flow through you to touch the lives of everyone you meet.”

Source : Gary Smalley (1993). “Giving the Blessing”, Thomas Nelson Publishers
“It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.”
“Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness.”

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