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Harvey Pekar

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Sunday school don't make you cool forever."

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Donna Grant

"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

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Donna Grant

"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."

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Donna Grant

"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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Donna Grant

"I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom."

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Donna Grant

"Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us."

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Donna Grant

"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years."

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Donna Grant

"When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up."

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Donna Grant

"I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble."

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Harvey Pekar
"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."

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Harvey Pekar
"I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics."

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Harvey Pekar
"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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Harvey Pekar
"I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form."

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Harvey Pekar
"There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly."

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Harvey Pekar
"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."

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Harvey Pekar
"It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start."

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Harvey Pekar
"I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad."

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Harvey Pekar
"Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well."

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Harvey Pekar
"I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books."

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