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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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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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
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I don't know how many times I heard older people, and not just parents but just older people, say, 'Oh, my God. Your generation is just totally nuts. You have no sense of what it was really like, when it was great.' And every generation has that same feeling, you know?
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I taught my executive team how to argue.
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I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.
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There is something about the mental act of thanksgiving that seems to carry the human mind far beyond the region of doubt into the clear atmosphere of faith and trust, where "all things are possible."
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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.
