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Quotes by Cartoonist
"It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have."
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"With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself."
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"Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people."
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"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
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"Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time."
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"There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair."
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"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."
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"I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again."
Will,
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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population."
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"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."
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"What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has."
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"Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong."
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"Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company."
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"Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred."
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"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."
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"Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running."
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"Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful."
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"I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer."
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"Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively."
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"She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister."
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"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut."
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"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."
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"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork."
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"The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever."
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"The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it."
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"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."
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"The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin."
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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
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"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths."
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"When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem."
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"The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman."
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"People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life."
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"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself."
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"I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading."
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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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"It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation."
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"I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain."
Men,
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"I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side."
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"When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine."
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"The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done."
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"People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing."
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