John Kricfalusi Quotes
You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?
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Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
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Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.
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Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
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There's a reason I live in the Maine woods, where nobody knows what I do for a living. I think you can be better if someone who's coming to see you perform has no idea who you really are.
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You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.
