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Jhonen Vasquez

"I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider."

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Akshay Vasu

"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."

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Akshay Vasu

"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."

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Akshay Vasu

"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."

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Akshay Vasu

"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."

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Akshay Vasu

"I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded."

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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."

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Akshay Vasu

"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."

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Akshay Vasu

"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

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Akshay Vasu

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."

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Akshay Vasu

"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life."

Life

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Jhonen Vasquez
"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."

Day

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain."

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