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Jonathan Shapiro

"I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things."

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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

"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

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

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Akshay Vasu

"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."

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Akshay Vasu

"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

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Jonathan Shapiro
"Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit."

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Jonathan Shapiro
"The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about."

People

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Jonathan Shapiro
"I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper."

Change

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Jonathan Shapiro
"I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character."

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Jonathan Shapiro
"What's much harder is taking on people in your own community."

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Jonathan Shapiro
"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."

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Jonathan Shapiro
"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."

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Jonathan Shapiro
"Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor."

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Jonathan Shapiro
"There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises."

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Jonathan Shapiro
"I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things."

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