Jeff MacNelly Quotes
I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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I don't think I could have just kept writing the 'Richard Jury' books. It wasn't that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.
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I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.
