Quotes by David Rees - Page 1

I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.
David Rees / Cartoonist
Robots
Sweat
Taste
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I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.
David Rees / Cartoonist
Prose
Prose Writing
Writing
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I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.
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Discovery
Feels
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I hate self-publishing; it's a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.
David Rees / Cartoonist
Hate
Real
Self
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Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.
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Laughing
Make You Smile
Mean
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I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity.
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I have very limited craftsmanship. And a lot of the stuff I make plays on that.
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Craftsmanship
Play
Stuff
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Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.
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Hips
House
Matter
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I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.
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Felt
Making Money
Stuff
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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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Fun
Wanted
Would Be
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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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Comedian
Hobbies
Littles
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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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Grandchildren
Would Be
Yeah
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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 / Cartoonist
Clean
Teeth
Use
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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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Making Money
Virtuous
Way
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I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.
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Dream
Dollars
Making Money
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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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Good Relationship
Self
Stores
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I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.
David Rees / Cartoonist
Paid
Sharpening Pencils
Wonder
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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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Moving
Powerful
Real
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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."
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Men
Ideas
People
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I don't think I would've ever dared dreaming of becoming a professional cartoonist. I wouldn't set myself up for that disappointment.
David Rees / Cartoonist
Dream
Disappointment
Thinking
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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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Obscure
Self
Years
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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.
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Art
Funny Jokes
Ideas
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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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Art
Clip
Done
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I've been really surprised about a lot of the negative comments about artisanal pencil sharpening. Like, it really rubs some people the wrong way.
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Negative
People
Way
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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.
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Adults
Order
Pay
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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.
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Art
Believe
Thinking
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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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People
Reading
Simple
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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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Performers
Talking
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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Creative
Feelings
Special
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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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Art
Interesting
Want
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The time that I would spend revisiting my old Get Your War On strips is more profitably spent Googling myself and reading comments about how people hate my pencil-sharpening business.
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War
Hate
Reading
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I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.
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Census
Difficult Times
Quitting
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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.
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Cartoon
Interesting
Made
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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.
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Goal
People
Want
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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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Ex Boyfriend
Girlfriend
Goal
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I hardly ever use pencils. I'm left-handed and it's really messy if you're left-handed because of the graphite smudging. I use them more now than I used to because there's, like, 15,000 pencils all over my house.
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House
Messy
Used
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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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Book
Track
Two
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I talked to people in the pencil industry and I talked to people as I was sharpening their pencils about the frustrations they have with pencils, so I really did do my research and I do know more about pencils than most people.
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Frustration
People
Research
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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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Jobs
Real
Rights
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People think, "Wow, people in America have so much money, they're sending hundreds of pencils to this guy." I don't think those people realize that most people who are buying these pencils are buying them as art objects or conversation pieces.
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Art
America
Thinking
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I was just worried that someone was gonna think that I had been commissioned by Jamba Juice to make cartoons about Jamba Juice. And the big thing for me was - if I'm not getting paid to sell out, I don't want people to think that I'm selling out.
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Cartoon
People
Thinking
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I got to draw shapes. I really like to draw funky, geometric shapes. And I got to use just different fonts and make a joke of how feminine it was, but it didn't even have people in it. To me, it was so exciting and interesting to do that for a while.
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Geometric Shapes
Interesting
People
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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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Art
Grateful
People
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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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Pages
People
Pockets
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I assumed that the pencil market was collapsing, but then it turns out that from 2010 to 2011 in the United States, pencil consumption went up by over six percent. I mean, those are all foreign-made pencils. Those are probably Chinese pencils, mostly, and Mexican pencils. I mean, it is an archaic communication technology, but it is still ubiquitous.
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Communication
Technology
Mean
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I take pop culture really seriously, I think it's really important, and the stuff that I make...I don't want it to be insubstantial, even if it's about something wacky, like sharpening pencils. I feel like I owe it to myself and I owe it to people who are really interested in pencils and I owe it to anybody to do my due diligence and give them something real.
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Giving
Real
Thinking
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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.
David Rees / Cartoonist
Jobs
Opportunity
Crazy
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