Jeff MacNelly Quotes
If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.
Quotes to Explore
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.
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Nobody does remakes for the sake of it. As for me, I have not hard and fast rules with respect to remakes.
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Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?
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I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified.
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The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
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A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.
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I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.
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The Confederacy stands for slavery and the Union for freedom.
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Minister-no-more at yanisvaroufakis.eu, 2015/07/06; cited in: I shall wear the creditors’ loathing with pride, in: theguardian.com, 6 July 2015.
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I have no way of knowing that your story is not true - but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me - your life, your view of life - is the lie.
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With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.
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I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.
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It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.
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I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.
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'Billy on the Street' is a very exhausting show to do, as you can imagine, but it's worth it.
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With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
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If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.
