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Quotes by Cartoonist
"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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"All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them."
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"I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math."
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"The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand."
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"I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track."
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"If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers."
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"I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life."
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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 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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"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."
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"You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government."
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"Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice."
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"Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word."
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"Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is."
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"When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights."
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"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
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"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books."
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"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."
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"I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately."
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"I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history."
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"Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book."
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"My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog."
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"In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks."
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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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"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."
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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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"I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more."
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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 could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's."
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"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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"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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"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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"Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart."
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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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"Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world."
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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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"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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"You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian."
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"When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since."
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"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive."
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"It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare."
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