John Kricfalusi Quotes
Forget the takes. Takes are cheap shots. Anyone can do a goddamn take. ... You don't have to be a genius to draw a take. It's emotions—the full range of emotions—that works in Clampett's cartoons.
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
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The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.
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This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it's all about and that's why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That's the beauty of the cup.
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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
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I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun.
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I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.
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The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
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Diversity and inclusion are always something industries should strive for.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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I started doing flats because women would always apologize for wearing them when they met me, as if they had to be in heels when meeting a shoe designer.
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The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.
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Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.
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The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
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I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.
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Everything works in PowerPoint; but if you have the physical item or some demonstration software, that's much more convincing to people than a PowerPoint presentation or a business plan.
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The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture
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Forget the takes. Takes are cheap shots. Anyone can do a goddamn take. ... You don't have to be a genius to draw a take. It's emotions—the full range of emotions—that works in Clampett's cartoons.
