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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People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very motivated to get their employees healthy, since they bear most of the burden of their health care costs.
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I'm sick of losing, being honest. I don't look at this as going to Mexico; I look at this is we've got to win a game. I don't care if we have to go to the other side of Africa, we've got to win this game.
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My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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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.
