Garry Trudeau Quotes

Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

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• I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Girl
  • Die
  • Movies

• It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Desire
  • Play

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• I am not an American; I am the American.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • American

• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Father

• If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Home
  • Travel

• I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Entertaining

• We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Smart
  • Leadership

• Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Company
  • Gentleman
  • Pink

• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Learn

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Me
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • School
  • Girl
  • Name

• I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Success
  • Learn

• I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Up
  • Fashion
  • Hair

• If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• God bless ABC. They are my knights in shining armor. I love their content. Just as a person, I'm a huge fan of 'Scandal,' I still love 'Grey's Anatomy,' and 'Resurrection' looks amazing.

  

  Jaime Ray Newman
  • God
  • Amazing

• I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • Up

• Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

  

  Garry Trudeau
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