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Quotes by Cartoonist
"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."
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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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"I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page."
Love,
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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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"I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years."
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"The specifics of Cathy?s and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same."
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"Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future."
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"People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story."
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"The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer."
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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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"Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all."
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"I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it."
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"In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators."
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"Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different."
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"Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things."
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"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
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"Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up."
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"Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours."
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"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."
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"Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money."
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"A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope."
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"After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines."
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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present."
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"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
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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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"Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies."
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"It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool."
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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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"I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married."
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"Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running."
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"Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny."
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"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."
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"There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more."
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"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."
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"In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work."
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"Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth."
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"One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off."
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"In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt."
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