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Quotes by Cartoonist
"In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too."
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"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."
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"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."
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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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"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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"I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer."
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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."
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"I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider."
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"A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope."
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"It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more."
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"I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent."
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"I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist."
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"I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer."
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"When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking."
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"I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar."
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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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"Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to."
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"The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it."
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"I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't."
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"Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully."
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"I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track."
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"Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."
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"I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes."
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"I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more."
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"The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety."
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"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."
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"I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain."
Men,
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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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"When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine."
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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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"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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"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
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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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"Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems."
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"Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either."
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"Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different."
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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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"The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping."
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