John Kricfalusi Quotes
The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
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For me, I feel like I don't see myself as all that different from other humans as a woman, but I'm surprised by how frequently I'm asked to see myself differently.
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People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?
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Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.
