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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.
Matt Groening
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Matt Groening
Age: 54
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Matthew Abram Groening
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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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But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
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I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.
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'The Simpsons' obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don't really like the show. They don't like 'The Simpsons' at Fox.
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I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.
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If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.
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Welcome to Suckersville, man.
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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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I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.
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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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We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.
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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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