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Quotes by Cartoonist
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
221
"Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say."
145
"Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly."
141
"Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design."
133
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
113
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
106
"Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure."
93
"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."
Life,
88
"Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days."
82
"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."
78
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."
77
"Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow."
75
"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."
75
"In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids."
Kids,
70
"I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience."
69
"We seem to think we have some control over this planet."
68
"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."
67
"Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days."
66
"I don't want little kids reading my comics."
66
"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night."
66
"I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation."
65
"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."
65
"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand."
64
"I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think."
63
"It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment."
63
"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
62
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
62
"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."
61
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."
61
"Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else."
61
"I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste."
61
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
60
"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."
60
"We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so."
59
"We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together."
59
"I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities."
59
"Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid."
59
"And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed."
59
"He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end."
58
"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
58
"And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was."
58
"Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked."
57
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