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"I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents."
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"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
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"My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be."
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"My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much."
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"My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing."
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"My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do."
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"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."
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"Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer."
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"I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal."
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"I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane."
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"Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on."
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"She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister."
Father
"Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days."
Attention
"Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity."
Community
"Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece."
Body
"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut."
Being
"My first character was Mr. Toad."
Character
"When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing."
Drugs
"If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip."
Life
"Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America."
Movies
"What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong."
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