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Pat Oliphant

"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."

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"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."

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"One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off."
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"If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have."
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"I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it."
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"I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student."
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"Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to."
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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."
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"There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon."
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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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"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."
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"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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