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Quotes by Cartoonist
"But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy."
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"If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct."
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"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."
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"I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things."
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"The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light."
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"The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw."
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"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."
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"I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them."
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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present."
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"Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason."
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"If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more."
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"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
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"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."
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"When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information."
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"When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing."
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"If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper."
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"The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one."
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"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
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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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"Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him."
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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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"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
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"Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to."
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"I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't."
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"I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations."
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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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"I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point."
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"The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more."
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"My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call."
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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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"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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"People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph."
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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 just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."
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"I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things."
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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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"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."
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"I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born."
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"I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous."
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"I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage."
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"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done."
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