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Matt Groening Quotes

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

Matt Groening

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 15, 1954

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History Beginning Know Sometimes

When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer.

Joel Coen

Job Yourself Writing Expectations

Some of the brightest, most creative minds have been touched by mental illness.

Mauro Ranallo

Creative Mental Illness Minds Illness

Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.

Stephen Kinzer

Power Humility Win Compromise Take

I think if we're going to have a requirement that everyone have equal access to insurance, you really have to have a way to make certain that everyone is expected to participate.

Ron Williams

Think Insurance You Way Equal Going

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

Courteney Cox

Humor Snob Just Am

It was my grandmother who raised me and guided me.

Coco Martin

Me Grandmother Who Raised Guided

You can't go wrong mixing classic graphics in black and white. It's very Parisienne.

Brad Goreski

Black And White Black You White Go

One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources go. That includes not only material resources, but psychological resources: the commitment of time and a portion of your mind to something when you'd rather be doing something else.

Wole Soyinka

Time Responsibility Commitment Mind

Just based on the primary adage of the necessity breeding innovation, it was just like 'Well, what makes me the guitar player that I am?' and I feel like I listen to so much different music, and I'm a student of so many genres of music, and I feel like it's fun to apply those things and anything super applicable to any type of music.

Synyster Gates

Music Innovation I Am Fun Me Guitar

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Peter Carey

Beautiful Ambition World Mad True

I did a lot of acting, funnily enough, unprofessionally, as a kid. From when I was 10 years old until I was about 19, I was always doing little sketches with my friends, and doing different accents and voices.

Sharlto Copley

Friends Doing Enough Acting Old Kid

I can be a bit impatient sometimes. If I'm really focusing on something, I can expect everybody to move at the same pace, and that's probably not massively endearing.

Sebastian Coe

I Can Sometimes Same Expect Move