Matt Groening Quotes
I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I grew up on films.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.
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I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama.
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I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.
