Matt Groening Quotes
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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Every time you get something, give something away.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
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I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.
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I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity.
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A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
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After 'Chen Zhen,' I wanted to make an emotional, touching story.
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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
