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I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.

Matt Groening

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Matt Groening
Age: 55
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Matthew Abram Groening
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With Futurama, I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our original plan was never to have Fry and Leela get together, we finally just said, You can only string the fans along so far.
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The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I'm not funny anymore.
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Being a good embalmer is a thankless job.
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I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.
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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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A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.
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Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.
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When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries.
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Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.
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But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
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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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I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists.
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Everybody is clever, just in their own ways
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Let's face it, all the good stuff happens after midnight.
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How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?
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Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
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First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
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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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When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.
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With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult.
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