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Quotes by Cartoonist
"A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's."
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"They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer."
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"Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks."
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"People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story."
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"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."
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"I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons."
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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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"The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up."
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"All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show."
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"Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war."
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"I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody."
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"I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one."
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"Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution."
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"We had all these things to deal with- houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry about anything.' So it was really confusing."
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"There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists."
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"I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider."
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"My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff."
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"We had all this kind of freedom and 'get out of your head' kind of stuff and at the same time, we were trying to establish ourselves in the business. These two things are really difficult to bring together."
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"The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping."
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"The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke."
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"After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines."
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"Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback."
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"The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country."
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"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."
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"The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television."
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"It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool."
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"Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now."
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"I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably."
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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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"Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved."
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"Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests."
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"Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal."
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"There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon."
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"Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children."
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"It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling."
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"The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression."
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"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools."
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"There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue."
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"I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist."
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"When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home."
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"I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes."
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"Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action."
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"When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit."
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