Garry Trudeau Quotes
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I don't know what love means.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
