Garry Trudeau Quotes
Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
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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.
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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I'm a proud family man.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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I'm just a low-key guy.
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Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.
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Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
