Matt Groening Quotes
I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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Hope is the raw material of losers.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
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I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.
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I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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You can grow apart from people very quickly.
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I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.
