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Quotes by Cartoonist
"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently."
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"What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience."
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"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."
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"Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it."
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"The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born."
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"I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family."
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"When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights."
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"My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons."
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"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books."
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"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
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"And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me."
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"My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog."
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"The specifics of Cathy?s and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same."
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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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"It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things."
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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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"I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody."
Work,
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"Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected."
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"To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them."
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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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"As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip."
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"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."
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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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"Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr."
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"Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny."
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"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon."
Life,
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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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"Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world."
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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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"The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?"
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"You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go."
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"In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work."
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"Calvin: As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You've taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations."
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"I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow."
Will,
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"When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought."
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"If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers."
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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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"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."
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"I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it."
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"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse."
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"I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me."
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"But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home."
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"I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years."
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"I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself."
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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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"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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