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Quotes by Cartoonist
"My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned."
9
"I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving."
9
"The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety."
8
"I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me."
8
"The specifics of Cathy?s and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same."
8
"I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books."
8
"In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you."
8
"Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour."
8
"These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness."
8
"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."
8
"Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up."
8
"There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
8
"It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now."
8
"Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then."
8
"Think of the life of the working woman as the decathlon. If you even finish it's a miracle."
8
"I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married."
8
"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."
8
"Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to."
8
"We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success."
8
"I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence."
8
"The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise."
8
"If I had a nickel for every time I said "Why me?" I'd have probably said "Why me?" more often."
Time,
8
"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."
Army,
8
"High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances."
7
"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."
7
"I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it."
7
"If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it."
7
"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."
7
"I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me."
7
"I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important."
7
"I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it."
7
"I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business."
7
"Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot."
6
"Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners."
6
"Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all."
6
"Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things."
6
"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."
6
"Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated."
6
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