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If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain.

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Matt Groening
Age: 54
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Matthew Abram Groening
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Did you hear something? No. Did I hear something? ...I don't know.
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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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I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.
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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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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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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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Let's face it, all the good stuff happens after midnight.
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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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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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Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless.
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I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.
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When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
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When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work! (Homer Simpson)
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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 have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and the work that they do is really fantastic. It's a blast just to sit around with them in the writers' room and listen to all the filthy jokes that will never get on the air.
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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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Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.
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I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.
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