Matt Groening Quotes
With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.
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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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All I ever wanted to do was bit parts on Broadway. I have more than achieved any goal that I aspired to.
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The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.
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With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture.
