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Quotes by Cartoonist
"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."
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"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse."
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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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"The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about."
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"If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time."
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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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"Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976."
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"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
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"We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated."
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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 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 think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary."
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"It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form."
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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 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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"The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done."
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"People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing."
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"When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places."
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"There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises."
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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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"God invented mankind because he loved silly stories."
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"There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music."
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"Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally."
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"A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's."
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"Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary."
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"I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society."
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"If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct."
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"I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach."
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"These days an income is something you can't live without - or within."
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"Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man."
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"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."
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"In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you."
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"I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with."
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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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"I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company."
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"I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it."
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"One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead."
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"On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet."
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"Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up."
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"I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult."
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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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"Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war."
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"When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time."
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