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Berkeley Breathed Quotes

American - Cartoonist | June 21, 1957 -

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

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Holidays Ignore Cards Greeting Guy

The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

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Go Page Want Dying Comic

I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

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People Me Think Find Boring Way

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

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Daily Texas News Photographer Texan

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

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Serious Nothing Anymore Then

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.

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Nature Rich End Result Lazy More

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

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Daughter Mind Me Mars Dork Would

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

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Heart Ugly I Can Say Emotion Pull

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.

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Simple Story Picture Why Backwards

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

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Failure Heart Anger Political Hand

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

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College Influence Attention Course

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

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Childhood Place Los Angeles Always

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