Harvey Pekar Quotes

I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that comics were like virgin territory. There was so much to be done. It excited me. I couldn't draw very well. I could write scripts and storyboard style using stick figures and balloons and captions.

Harvey Pekar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 8, 1939 - July 12, 2010

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Even though my work life is very intense, I make a conscious effort to be healthy.

Jessica Scorpio

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I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.

Joel Edgerton

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Our interests are pretty boundless, as is our appetite for new creative experiences.

Jennifer Konner

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The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

Merle Haggard

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My first job was as a sandwich artist at Subway.

Sophia Amoruso

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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Toni Morrison

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Any time skating was featured in a video game, I ate it up. So around 1997-98, I was shopping this video game idea. I was weighing my options when I went to Activision, but when I saw what they were working on, I said, 'This is exactly what I'd love to be involved with,' and following that gut reaction was hugely successful.

Tony Hawk

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I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

Robert Carlyle

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We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

Roald Amundsen

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No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

Robertson Davies

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It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

Mick Taylor

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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Miles Davis

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