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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We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.
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You don't always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful.
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I want to start dating the man that I’m gonna marry. I want to start having some fun with someone that I know I’m gonna be with. I don’t play any games. I’m too old for that. I’ve been there, I’ve been around the block.
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If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.
