Dave Gibbons Quotes

I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call it an album, which to me sounds, it's got more much of a connotation of a kind of a music single and an album collection.

Dave Gibbons

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 14, 1949

Topics

MusicMeThinkProblemKindMore

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

Jerry Saltz

MemoriesArtFlowersDieBloomLast

I love opportunities to do something I'm not supposed to be able to do. Hell, that's my career.

Andrew Whitworth

LoveOpportunitiesHellCareerAble

Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all.

Megan Fox

YouHollywoodAttractiveWorking

In the end, being the writer on set is a bit like having organised a big party, but you're not allowed to eat or drink anything. You just have to stand in the corner.

John Niven

EndStandYouPartyDrinkEat

If you're blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn't just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.

John Thune

GoodBlessedGameEnoughYouValues

I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?

Mindy Kaling

LoveBookFightingYouWonderShe

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Lord Byron

MindMeViewPoint Of ViewNowTurn

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Jean de la Bruyere

FearWiseSocietyPersonBored

One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there's a commitment there - an unwavering commitment. From our basement in Illinois when I was three years old to Iceland on a frozen glacier with Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon in spacesuits - there's a commitment to the pure spectacle, the pure cinema of it.

Jonathan Nolan

LoveCommitmentBrotherCinemaThree

Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

HistoryGenerationNiceSeparation

All confrontation is based on deception.

Paul Watson

DeceptionConfrontationBased

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Thomas J. Watson

BusinessMyselfFunGameYouPlay

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