American - Cartoonist | September 9, 1964 -
We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
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Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
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It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.
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In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day.
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When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'
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Of course I loved 'I Love Lucy' and saw every episode over and over again. I found it heartbreaking that Ricky got to be famous and have an exciting life at the Tropicana while Lucy was stuck in that terrible apartment with the Mertzes.
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We only got clothing once a year, like, right before school began. It's like, that's when you got your clothing.
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When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.
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What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
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I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds.
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I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
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Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way.
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