Jim Davis Quotes
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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When in doubt, do it.
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You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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My desk is my drums.
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When I read 'Maus,' I realized you could tell a story of tremendous import using the graphic novel.
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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
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Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.
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I've never been a partier.
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Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.
