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Quotes by Cartoonist
"He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable."
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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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"Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he'd walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember?"
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"The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw."
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"I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain."
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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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"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."
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"I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think."
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"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."
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"Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid."
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"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."
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"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
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"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."
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"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."
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"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."
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"The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever."
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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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"Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to."
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"I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste."
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"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."
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"Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material."
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"The most profound statements are often said in silence."
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"Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away."
10
"There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."
10
"I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie."
10
"When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me."
10
"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."
10
"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."
10
"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."
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"I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself."
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"I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons."
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"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."
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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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"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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"We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us."
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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 people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them."
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"That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find."
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"Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made."
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"And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine."
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"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
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"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."
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"When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school."
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"I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great."
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"For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done."
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