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Quotes by Cartoonist
"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
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"Mothers are the necessity of invention."
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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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"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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"Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s."
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"Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals."
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"When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information."
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"I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts."
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"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."
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"You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me."
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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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"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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"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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"Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything."
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"But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television."
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"When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling."
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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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"I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt."
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"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information."
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"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
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"There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises."
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"Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man."
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"Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated."
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"No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate."
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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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"The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country."
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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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"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."
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"At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics."
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"The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand."
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"Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic."
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"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."
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"We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks."
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"Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally."
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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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"If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong."
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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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"It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have."
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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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"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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