Gary Larson Quotes
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I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I thought some of my earlier cartoons were not exactly great shakes at the time I drew them. Now I see a certain innocence in them. The humor has a kind of purity to it, I guess. And it works better on some level for me now.
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I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
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The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
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Thunderstick?... You actually said, 'Thunderstick?'... That, my friend is a Winchester 30.06.
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The problem, Mr. Fudd, is that you've been having a sublimal effect on everyone in the factory. We're proud of our product, Mr. Fudd, and there's no company in the world that build a finer skwoo dwivuh. ... Dang! Now you got me doing it!
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I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
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You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.
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He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious drunk kept calling him "Dude."
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The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.
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It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.
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Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
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Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'
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Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.
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Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!
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Usually when I sat down to draw a cartoon, it would be more of a reflection of things in my past. Or it could be something I had experienced that morning, or that week, or something I might know that's part of my background.
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I think it's vital to be honest with yourself. You do have to satisfy yourself first. If you're drawing something, you have to ask yourself if it's something you genuinely think is funny. Or is it starting to fall into just a category, just kind of a shtick thing? I think it's important for all cartoonists to be honest with themselves about their own sense of humor and what they're doing.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.
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The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.
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What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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It would be hard to get worse. I had only one direction to go.
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People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
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The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! Wait, wait... Oh, my mistake - that's the intercom light.
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