David Rees Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  David Rees

  Book, Two, Track

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

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  Play, Stuff, Craftsmanship

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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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  Interesting, Cartoon, Made

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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, Ideas, Funny Jokes

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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 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 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, People, Interesting

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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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  Thinking, People, Cartoon

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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.

  David Rees

  Real, Thinking, Giving

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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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  Hate, War, Reading

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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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  People, Goal, Want

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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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  Difficult Times, Quitting, Census

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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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• 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.

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  Wonder, Sharpening Pencils, Paid

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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'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

  David Rees

  Writing, Prose Writing, Prose

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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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  People, Negative, Way

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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, Thinking, America

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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, Used, Messy

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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.

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  Dream, Disappointment, Thinking

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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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  Order, Adults, Pay

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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, Mean, Technology

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