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"There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
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"I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows."
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"So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring."
"Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then."
"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."
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