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Quotes by Cartoonist
"I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student."
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"The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about."
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"I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately."
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"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die."
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"About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation."
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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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"Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there."
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"There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population."
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"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend."
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"You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian."
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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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"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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"I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that."
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"One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book."
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"I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married."
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"Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude."
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"We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year."
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"I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed."
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"What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character."
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"When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change the subject! It's like an interception in football! You grab the others guy's idea and run the opposite way with it! The more sentences you complete, the higher your score! The idea is to block the other guy's thoughts and express your own! That's how you win!Conversations aren't contests!Ok, a point for you, but I'm still ahead."
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"I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family."
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"Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books."
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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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"Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding."
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"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
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"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."
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"Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns."
Want,
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"On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy."
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"Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world."
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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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"Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor."
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"My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff."
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"There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past."
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"Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could."
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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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"We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are."
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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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"Immortality - a fate worse than death."
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"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."
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"What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong."
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"But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu."
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"I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians."
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"History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices."
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"I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!"
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"Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip."
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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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"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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