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Quotes by Cartoonist
"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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"Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all."
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"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."
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"I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians."
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"I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons."
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"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"
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"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."
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"Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry."
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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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"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."
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"Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties."
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"I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts."
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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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"Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things."
Time,
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"The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it."
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"I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design."
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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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"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
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"I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations."
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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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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
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"I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track."
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"A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself."
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"I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking."
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"I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while."
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"I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!"
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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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"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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"I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me."
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"Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups."
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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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"I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it."
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"Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy."
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"I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family."
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"Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot."
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"I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out."
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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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"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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"Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door."
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"I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page."
Love,
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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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"When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine."
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"About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation."
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"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it."
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