Garry Trudeau Quotes
Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
