Matt Groening Quotes
The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.
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Individuals are complex and deserve to be recognized as such.
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At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.
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We don't want to upset our fans, because that's not what we are here to do.
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Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
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The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.
