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Quotes by Cartoonist
"I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't."
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"Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?"
15
"Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time."
15
"To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them."
15
"Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days."
15
"I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities."
15
"'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political."
15
"Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid."
15
"When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school."
15
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
15
"I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home."
15
"At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics."
15
"You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being."
15
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
14
"I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other."
14
"After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny."
14
"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."
14
"I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths."
14
"Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked."
14
"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess."
13
"I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort."
13
"There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts."
13
"We're not very accepting of people who act strangely."
13
"But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home."
13
"I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate."
13
"The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw."
13
"I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain."
13
"I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think."
13
"Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show."
13
"Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world."
13
"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."
13
"I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life."
Life,
13
"And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed."
13
"Families are about love overcoming emotional torture."
13
"Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end."
13
"My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!"
13
"I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again."
12
"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do."
12
"Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything."
12
"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner."
12
"The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice."
12
"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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