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Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
Matt Groening
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Matt Groening
Age: 54
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Matthew Abram Groening
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The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.
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The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other and then I can just go home and they don't know.
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I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?
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I personally like the idea of newspapers. It's a good format. You can read it in whatever order you want. You can glance at it. There is something about a single screen and scrolling through pages that just doesn't have the same appeal.
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Everybody is clever, just in their own ways
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Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?
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I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.
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People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.
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Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.
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Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.
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For some reason, a lot of Hollywood big shots are curious to see how they'd be drawn with bulging eyes and no chin.
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Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you! — Russ Cargill
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How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
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My life changed when I was able to not only get seated in nice restaurants, I was given free appetizers. That was like, Oh, my God, I've arrived.
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Don't have a cow, man.
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Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.
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Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
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First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
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Did you hear something? No. Did I hear something? ...I don't know.
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