Stephan Pastis Quotes
You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.
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There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
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Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
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Sometimes I draw blanks.
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
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I never read comic books as a kid.
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I tried to, from my very early years, I've been an inveterate movie goer and still am and I, I love the medium. So what I, what I draw and what I'm still doing, is part of that particular orientation.
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[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.
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I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.
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Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
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There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil.
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I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.
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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
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I don't think there's hardly a comic out there that does clean material all the way around. There's a couple of guys that are clean, but I'm not one of them.
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If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.
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The last four weeks where we have gone unbeaten, albeit a draw against the Bulls, have been crucial for us as a team and have given us a chance in this competition.
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To understand the limitation of things, desire them.
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If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.
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Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
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I draw like other people bite their nails.
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
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I want my paintings to give the viewer a true sense of reality - that includes but is not limited to depth, scale and a tactile surface as well as the real sense of what the subject looks like and is feeling at the time that I painted them. There should be a discourse between the viewer and the subject, to feel as though they are in a way connected. My goal is not to set a narrative but rather to have the viewer bring their own experiences to the painting and the subject as they would if they had seen the subject on the street in real life.
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You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.
