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Quotes by Cartoonist
"I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society."
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"I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women."
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"These days an income is something you can't live without - or within."
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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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"One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead."
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"Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was."
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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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"That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes."
15
"Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated."
15
"You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me."
15
"Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year."
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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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"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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"In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators."
15
"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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"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend."
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"My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary."
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"Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby."
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"I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption."
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"Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too."
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"Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery."
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"Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s."
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"In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers."
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"One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book."
15
"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon."
Life,
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"I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals."
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"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."
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"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"
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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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"I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult."
Play,
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"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."
15
"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."
15
"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."
15
"A man should never neglect his family for business."
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"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently."
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"I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth."
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"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."
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"What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience."
15
"Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do."
14
"Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her."
14
"I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again."
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"Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl."
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"Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy."
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"This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at."
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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'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true."
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