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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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've done a lot of TV, but not film.
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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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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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And God 'sits in the heavens and laughs' at the proud who pretend to be more than they are.
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For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.
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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
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I live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village in the south of France was very different than the fantasy I had of living in France. Over the years I spent there, that fantasy was worn away and I found a more realistic version of France than the one I began with. I wouldn't say the spell ever goes away, but transforms. Now that I understand French culture more intimately, and speak fluent French, I have a different, more solid, relationship to the country.
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If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.
