Gary Ackerman Quotes
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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What does it take to win in New Hampshire? Grass roots and financial resources.
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Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
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There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.
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I benched up to 500 pounds one day and decided that was enough because I knew the risk of a pec tear or a shoulder injury would be catastrophic to my bodybuilding career.
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Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
