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Quotes by Cartoonist
"Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out."
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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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"I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading."
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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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"There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts."
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"The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film."
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"I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student."
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"When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes."
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"We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole time. Then I do a rough layout of the issue, showing what happens on each page. Then we discuss that some more."
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"Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children."
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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 thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work."
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"A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have."
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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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"When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling."
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"I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage."
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"I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought."
Boys,
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"Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes."
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"In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks."
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"Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda."
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"People should be allowed the freedom to make their own choices. They should be able to buy or not buy porn and be monogamous or promiscuous as they see fit."
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"We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down."
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"Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title."
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"Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life."
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"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
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"It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things."
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"If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have."
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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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"Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart."
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"When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with."
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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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"It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair."
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"When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity."
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"Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results."
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"We had all these things to deal with- houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry about anything.' So it was really confusing."
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"If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind."
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"As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip."
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"It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now."
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