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Quotes by Cartoonist
"Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked."
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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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"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."
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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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"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths."
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"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."
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"Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl."
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"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
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"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?"
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"I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world."
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"I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately."
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"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."
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"I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain."
Men,
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"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."
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"I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history."
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"The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice."
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"Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated."
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"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."
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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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"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."
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"We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives."
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"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it."
Life,
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"One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully."
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"I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself."
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"I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women."
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"I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons."
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"Animal welfare issues have always been important to me."
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"I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains."
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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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"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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"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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"We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us."
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"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."
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"Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either."
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"Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America."
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"Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years."
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"Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people."
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"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."
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"Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff."
Old,
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"I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life."
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"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."
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