It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well.
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Related It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER 'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, waili... FLORENCE WELCH - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem. - Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw... CHARLES BUKOWSKI you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... NED VIZZINI Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beg... MATT GROENING Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. PAUL SCOFIELD How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's n... BECKY G If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA Love, what you DO,
Respect, who DOES for you,
Appreciate, who DOES for others,
Salute, who DOES for ... PRITISH PATTANAIK 'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comi... RIDLEY SCOTT I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's gettin... KASKADE I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes o... LEV YILMAZ So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? I... CECILE RICHARDS You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER I wasn't intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn't aware that whe... CATHY GUISEWITE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant m... ANTHONY FAUCI Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the s... FRANK MILLER If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background... SAMI GAYLE Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask... JAY NORTHCOTE I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instru... MATHIAS MALZIEU I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so ac... FKA TWIGS If I were to reduce all my feelings and their painful conflicts to a single name, I can think of no ... HERMANN HESSE Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm not really a computer guy. It's like recess. I'd rather be outside getting dirty in ... MATT BARR It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There... DAVID LANGE Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed... ANN EDWARDS CANNON They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What wo... JOYCE CARY Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving. LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others. SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. NANETTE L. AVERY You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A phot... DANIEL CLOWES With music, there's a conversation happening. You're hearing what's going on right now, ... JIM DRAIN If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it. KYLE CHANDLER Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen ha... ELIZABETH HARDWICK I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career.... LAURA LEIGHTON Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it! MANUEL MONGRAIN 'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood a... ANSEL ELGORT I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pil... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pil... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY It is ridiculous - like a mad whirlwind... it's mad that I'm so famous. AMY JACKSON Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably cra... PATTI SMITH He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead. ERIN HUNTER Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, i... CARSON KRESSLEY I go to this gym in Hollywood: it's a Cross Fit gym. It's basically just a really high inten... PARKER YOUNG It's very easy to get excited about a job, but it's a big commitment because you do it and t... BRIDGET FONDA Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new busi... CHRIS HADFIELD I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so... KAREN ELSON If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL My house is really clean. It's a really big house so I have three ladies who come in and clean i... TOMMY LEE We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It&... ANNIE LENNOX A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivi... HALEY JOEL OSMENT You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find o... WYCLEF JEAN When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of co... PETER CAREY Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler. BEN CHAPLIN I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It mak... JOAN JETT I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course,... EMORY R. FRIE If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV ... JOHN GREEN Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to ... LARRY MCMURTRY Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it. JULIE KAGAWA Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings ou... JENNIFER BROWN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabit... AL-WALEED BIN TALAL Just do it. Now. M. YEATS For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA When you're in a rehearsal room, it's like getting into a car and going on a long journey wi... KATE FLEETWOOD A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it's an heirloom, ... ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Bekka treated her role has Frankenstein's bride more like an audition to be Brett's bride. Every par... LISI HARRISON I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a ... RAY CHARLES I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theate... JACK WAGNER Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it&... ALISON BECHDEL I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven'... GROVER NORQUIST if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there'... ADAM GREEN Ladies,Please dress how you would like to be approached and talked to. Don't dress like a hoe and ex... UNKNOWN Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world. PEARL ZHU „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund MARLEN HAUSHOFER It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic. LAURA FRASER When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a h... CAROL ANN DUFFY It's a strange thing to be a so-called alternative cartoonist, because in the early part of my c... ADRIAN TOMINE It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's... JODIE FOSTER In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is no... BEN KATCHOR
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