Garry Trudeau Quotes
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
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I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.
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I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.
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Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.
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Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
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Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.
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America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
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There is nothing worse than annotated humour.
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At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.
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Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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Once a week, I am a very desperate man.
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Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.
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Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.
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The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.
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When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
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Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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