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"Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention."
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"I need attention?No...I need victim....!"
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"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."
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"N order to capture someone's attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in."
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"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"
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"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"
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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."
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"The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention."
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"I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention."
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"As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet."
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"Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words."
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"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."
Writer
"We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff."
Funny
"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
"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."
Love
"Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before."
History
"Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to."
People
"One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself."
Thinking
"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
"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 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
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