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I promise I'll do anything for you, especialy if it's easy. Homer Simpson

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Matt Groening
Age: 54
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Portland
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Matthew Abram Groening
Matthew Groening
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The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.
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If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain.
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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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We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'
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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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I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.
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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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Masturbation is nothing to be ashamed of. It's nothing to be particularly proud of, either.
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As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.
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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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Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.
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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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I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.
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You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.
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Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
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You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on. Homer Simpson
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Did you hear something? No. Did I hear something? ...I don't know.
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I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
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I have less to do with 'The Simpsons' every season, but I stick my nose in here and there. Basically, it's just trying to keep the characters consistent and making sure the show has a soul.
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