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Quotes by Cartoonist
"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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"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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"Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he'd walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember?"
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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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"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."
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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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"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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"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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"That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project."
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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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"Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end."
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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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"'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political."
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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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"I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home."
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"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do."
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"Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away."
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"There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."
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"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."
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"Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats."
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"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."
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"To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them."
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"I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities."
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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."
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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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"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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"At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics."
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"Mothers are the necessity of invention."
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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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"Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material."
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"The most profound statements are often said in silence."
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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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"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
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"Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?"
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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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"He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable."
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"Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time."
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"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language."
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"Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days."
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"Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made."
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"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
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