Matt Groening Quotes

With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture.

Matt Groening

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LonelinessParentsIsolationThought

Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

Jill McCorkle

HumorSurvivalSkillSeeI See

All women like to look up to their men.

Tracy Morgan

WomenMenLookUpLikeAll Women

My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media.

Rufus Sewell

SuccessMediaCareerAlwaysPlaying

I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.

Miriam Margolyes

LiteratureRadioUniversityEnglish

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

Joyce Carol Oates

CommunityCultureHouseSometimes

I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story from me?

Jay Asher

LoveMeBookStorySeriousWant

If I am writing down something and it is my idea, my imagination, it won't be fact.

Disha Patani

ImaginationI AmWritingDownIdea

Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.

Douglas Coupland

YouPenWantSpecialOutTailor

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

Aretha Franklin

InspirationalJobHonorI CanPerson

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

Wole Soyinka

ValueAmazingSurviveYouHuman

You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

Phil Robertson

GodChildrenRespectDisciplineLaw

I don't like using fourths and fifths. Instead, I'll come up with a harmony line made up of major and minor thirds above the melody, then I'll drop it down an octave so that the melody is on top and the harmony line is major and minor sixths below it.

Synyster Gates

HarmonyDownTopLineUpAbove

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