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Quotes by Cartoonist
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
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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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"These days an income is something you can't live without - or within."
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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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"Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year."
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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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"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
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"Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved."
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"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."
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"Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about."
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"I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist."
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"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
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"When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression."
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"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."
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"The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done."
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"On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet."
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"Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life."
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"You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy."
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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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"Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all."
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"Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties."
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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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"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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"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."
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"I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort."
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"When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me."
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"We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff."
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"Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity."
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"The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice."
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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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"I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company."
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"I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons."
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"I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could."
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"We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public."
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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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"My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary."
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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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"After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines."
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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 sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something."
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"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."
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