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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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Personal Development
"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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Personal Development
"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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Personal Development
"If you want to be happy, be."
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Personal Development
"I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go."
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Personal Development
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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Personal Development
"The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them."
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Personal Development
"You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price."
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"And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know."
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"I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit."
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"I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again."
Will
"We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so."
Running
"A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen."
Life
"The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work."
Work
"I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level."
Love
"I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top."
Want
"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."
Writer
"Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories."
Funny
"I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life."
Life
"The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television."
Television
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