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"I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in."
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"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."
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"Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising."
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"I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that."
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"At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer."
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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
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"While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent."
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"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."
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"I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up."
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"You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques."
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"I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it."
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"I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys."
Research
"I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist."
Thought
"I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same."
People
"I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in."
School
"I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes."
People
"People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them."
People
"The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet."
Life
"I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in."
Work
"It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you."
People
"Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well."
Problems
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