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Quotes by Cartoonist
"I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes."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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"PENTHOUSE didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces."
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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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"I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it."
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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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"When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities."
Sex,
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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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"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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"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."
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"Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door."
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"Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children."
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"Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976."
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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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"It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form."
Art,
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"About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation."
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"People should be allowed the freedom to make their own choices. They should be able to buy or not buy porn and be monogamous or promiscuous as they see fit."
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"I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons."
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"In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home."
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"I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains."
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"Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it."
Life,
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"Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have."
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"When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time."
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"Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid."
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"On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy."
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"When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity."
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"It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now."
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"I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now."
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"Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines."
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"Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit."
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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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"Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours."
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"Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money."
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"Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church."
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"I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me."
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"Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny."
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"I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."
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"I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar."
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"I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me."
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"There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work."
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"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."
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