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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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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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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Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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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.
