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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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.
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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
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I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.
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When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.
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Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
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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.
