David Rees Quotes

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• Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

  David Rees

  Mean, Laughing, Make You Smile

  "Man Versus Machine" by Deirdre Foley Mendelssohn, www.newyorker.com. August 12, 2010.

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• I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.

  David Rees

  Sweat, Robots, Taste

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• Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.

  David Rees

  Teeth, Use, Clean

  David Rees (2012). “How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants”, p.29, Melville House

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• I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.

  David Rees

  Discovery, Feels

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

  David Rees

  Fun, Would Be, Wanted

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.

  David Rees

  Stuff, Making Money, Felt

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  David Rees

  Jobs, Real, Rights

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  David Rees

  People, Pockets, Pages

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  David Rees

  Way, Making Money, Virtuous

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

  David Rees

  House, Matter, Hips

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

  David Rees

  Grandchildren, Would Be, Yeah

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  David Rees

  Art, Grateful, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  David Rees

  Powerful, Real, Moving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I hate self-publishing; it's a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.

  David Rees

  Hate, Real, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  David Rees

  Reading, Simple, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  David Rees

  Art, Done, Clip

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  David Rees

  Girlfriend, Ex Boyfriend, Goal

  Source: www.gq.com

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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."

  David Rees

  Self, Good Relationship, Stores

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have very limited craftsmanship. And a lot of the stuff I make plays on that.

  David Rees

  Play, Stuff, Craftsmanship

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I never thought I would make a living as a pencil-sharpener. The first goal was: I don't want to lose money. And then the goal was: I want to see if 100 people buy my pencils. I just kept upping the benchmarks.

  David Rees

  People, Goal, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The thing that was interesting to me about Relationshapes - as opposed to most of the other cartoons I've ever made - was I knew when one worked and when one didn't work, but I couldn't really explain it.

  David Rees

  Interesting, Cartoon, Made

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a responsible adult and pay the rent.

  David Rees

  Order, Adults, Pay

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a really analytical approach to art. And the whole idea that you can't analyze what makes a joke funny...I do not agree with that at all.

  David Rees

  Art, Ideas, Funny Jokes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.

  David Rees

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works."

  David Rees

  Men, Ideas, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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