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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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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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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If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science. That will be the science of Christianity.
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I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
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When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.
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How should we deal with intrusions of fiction into life, now that we have seen the historical impact that this phenomenon can have? … Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
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One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
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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.
