Jeff MacNelly Quotes
If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.
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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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That's another fine mess you've gotten me into.
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When I was shooting in Pollachi, I had tried out a lot of local food, most of them I don't remember the names of.
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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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I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.
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I grew up watching my father work, and learning from him what good quality is. I took from him the passion to create beautiful and exclusive products. He also taught me to persevere if I want to reach my goals.
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With Gear, you're able to make calls and receive calls without ever taking your phone out of your pocket.
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Wall Street's biggest fight with Obama was over the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which Obama signed into law in the summer of 2010.
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If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.
