Craig Thompson Quotes
After 'Blankets,' I was sick of drawing myself and doing this autobiographical, mundane, Midwestern sort of comics. I wanted to create something bigger than myself and outside myself.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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My father is a huge horse racing fan, so I was introduced to the sport long before 'Seabiscuit.' But the role made me an even bigger fan. Horse racing is one of my favorite sports.
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I think we have to say it's okay to be angry. It's not all right to be violent. I know it would make people happy if I said I could wave my hand and make people behave less violently. I am not that presumptuous. We have a moral responsibility to share the resources of this country.
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From the peak in 2007 to the trough in 2009, Americans lost $11 trillion of net worth for households and businesses.
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'That narrow window, I expect, Serves but to let the dusk in - ' 'But please,' said I, 'to recollect 'Twas fashioned by an architect Who pinned his faith on Ruskin!'
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I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.
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After 'Blankets,' I was sick of drawing myself and doing this autobiographical, mundane, Midwestern sort of comics. I wanted to create something bigger than myself and outside myself.
