Comic Quotes - Page 20

• Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

  Louis Dudek

  Country, Book, Hockey

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• The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Tourists, Deceit, Needs

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• Sometimes. I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. I'm pretty low on the showbiz totem pole - I mean, I'm no Jon or Kate plus eight. I'm just a comic, not a baby factory.

  Dave Attell

  Baby, Mean, Eight

  Interview with Chris O'Connell, www.avclub.com. August 17, 2009.

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• I'm not the comic of the generation, I'm not even the funniest guy in my family.

  Dave Attell

  Guy, Generations, My Family

  Interview with Chris O'Connell, www.avclub.com. August 17, 2009.

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• Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

  Simon Pegg

  Humanity, Bills, Hicks

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• I wasn't always a comic, I used to do honest work.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Honest, Used, Honest Work

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• Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Christian, Husband, Father

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media. This is not a cage match. And, you look at the questions - "Donald Trump, are you a comic-book villain?" "Ben Carson, can you do math?" "John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?" "Marco Rubio, why don't you resign?" "Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?" How about talking about the substantive issues the people care about?

  Ted Cruz

  Book, Math, Media

  Ted Cruz at the third GOP debate at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2015.

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• I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Drawing, Style, Obvious

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.

  Laura Owens

  Art, Book, Other Cultures

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Becoming, Steps, Concrete

  "Five Things to Know About ABC's 'Cristela'" by Bryn Elise Sandberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2014.

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• Of all the awards, the Stand-up Comic Audience Award is our favorite. It is a chance to honor the performers who spend much of their careers developing their craft and working in the comedy clubs all over America.

  George Schlatter

  Awards, Careers, America

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• The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

  Adrian Tomine

  Reading, Pages, Should

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that's respectable for adults to read.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Ghetto, Media

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Achievement, Nervous

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.

  Adrian Tomine

  Black And White, Years, Issues

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Well in the comic book world, I think the Hulk is the strongest, but I think I'd give him a heck of a fight!

  Daniel Cudmore

  Book, Fighting, Thinking

  "Daniel Cudmore Interview by Meg Brown". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• My life goal is not to ruin anyone's existence. I'm a comic.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Goal, Ruins, Existence

  "Lunch Date: Rosie O'Donnell". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 30, 2006.

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• Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.

  Peter Capaldi

  Taken, Years, Levels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you can see the pleasure the performer has, when you can see a glimmer in the eye.

  Mathew Baynton

  Philosophy, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.

  Monica Furlong

  Envy, Would Be, Sin

  Monica Furlong (1982). “Christian Uncertainties”

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• I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Men, Long

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• It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book superheroes.

  William Webb

  Book, Superhero, Style

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• Comedy makes everything accessible.  Watching the news is kind of like being fed your evening pill.  What's fun about it?  Nothing.  And so if you can get news and information about things going on in the world through a comic platform, everything's going to connect. 

  Dan Aykroyd

  Fun, Pills, News

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• Comic scripts are full-on collaborations, not only with your artist, but your editors and colorists and letterers and PR folks, etc. Writing comics reminds me of my days as a journalist, working on a staff of fun, smart people.

  Duane Swierczynski

  Fun, Smart, Writing

  "Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski on shedding the Spanx for noir in the new BLACK HOOD #1". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. January 28, 2015.

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