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Quotes by Cartoonist
"It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl."
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"There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
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"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
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"If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one."
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"The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil."
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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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"On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home."
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"It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool."
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"Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race."
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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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"Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought."
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"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."
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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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"A man should never neglect his family for business."
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"I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it."
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"My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned."
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"Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece."
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"What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener."
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"Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her."
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"This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at."
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"Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in."
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"I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there."
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"We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated."
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"Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated."
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"When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places."
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"There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music."
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"Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary."
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"I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals."
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"I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in."
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"The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment."
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"I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me."
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"I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core."
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"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."
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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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"I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important."
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"Nowadays, ads don't just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here's a cool guy saying nobody tells him what to do. He does whatever he wants and he buys this product as a reflection of that independence. So basically, this maverick is urging everyone to express his individuality through conformity in brand-name selection?"
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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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"We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!"
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"The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more."
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"I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life."
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"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."
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"Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse."
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"Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out."
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"Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?"
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"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
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