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Quotes by Cartoonist
"We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks."
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"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."
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"Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us."
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"Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company."
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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 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."
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"I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home."
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"The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!"
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"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
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"I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas."
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"For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done."
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"Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end."
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"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
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"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence."
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"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."
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"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."
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"Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget."
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"I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts."
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"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."
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"Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate."
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"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."
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"I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great."
32
"Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else."
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"But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before."
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"I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father."
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"Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet."
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"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language."
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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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"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
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"Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby."
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"'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political."
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"Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character."
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"Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good."
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"I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?"
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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
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"On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published."
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"And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was."
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"Mothers are the necessity of invention."
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"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!"
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"I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie."
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"Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed."
Feet,
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