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Quotes by Cartoonist
"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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"The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light."
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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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"And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry."
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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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"Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor."
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"I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky."
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"I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other."
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"That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find."
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"I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that."
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"Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr."
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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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"And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine."
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"Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church."
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"Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels."
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"The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening."
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"The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television."
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"In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers."
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"I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level."
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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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"I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals."
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"When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school."
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"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."
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"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
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"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."
Life,
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"After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away."
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"Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race."
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"Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude."
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"Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred."
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"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"
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"Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively."
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"She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister."
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"The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence."
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"There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four."
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"Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests."
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"Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day."
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