Garry Trudeau Quotes
I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
Quotes to Explore
-
Snobbery just inhibits you.
-
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
-
I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
-
Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
-
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
-
At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
-
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
-
If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
-
Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
-
France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
-
At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
-
The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
-
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
-
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
-
Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
-
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
-
I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
-
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
-
A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
-
The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
-
I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.
-
And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate.
-
I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
