Patrick Chappatte Quotes
Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
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I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I want the reader to be transported. The novel is a big, complicated, unknowable thing before it's written.
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It is written in an all but totally unintelligible style, and this is constued as prima-facie evidence of profundity.
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The great thing about the Internet is - our show is totally modular. Every piece can be popped in and out. They're relatively short pieces. They're not long. And we can say, "here' s one way to market it. Take these pieces out of the show and put them on the Internet." And we're doing dirtier cuts and put those on the Internet. It's a real great way to market the show. This is finally the year a show like this can happen.
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Looking back, I can see that my life with David was molded by forces beyond my control and even my understanding. Still, I don't regret trying.
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Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.
