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 think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
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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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I am honored to be one of this year's Urbanworld ambassadors for the festival's 20th anniversary, joining my friend David Oyelowo. I have always had a special relationship with Urbanworld, back to my days as a festival publicist to previewing my earlier films and now as an ambassador.
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Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.
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It is, I think, one of the greatest honors that you can bestow on the code talkers. I'm really happy about it.
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If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.
