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Quotes by Cartoonist
"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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"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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"With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time."
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"You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go."
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"I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home."
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"Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery."
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"That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming."
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"Families are about love overcoming emotional torture."
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"It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace."
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"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do."
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"One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself."
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"We're not very accepting of people who act strangely."
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"I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it."
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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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"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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"All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show."
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"In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you."
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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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"It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare."
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"There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair."
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"We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings."
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"There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work."
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"There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware."
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"It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become."
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"It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling."
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"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."
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"Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups."
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"When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities."
Sex,
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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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"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 get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side."
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"I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards."
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"Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have."
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"We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise."
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"All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable."
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"You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story."
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"As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page."
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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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"Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character."
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"Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing."
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