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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

Pat Oliphant

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Pat Oliphant
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 24
Editorial Cartoonist
Journalist
Painter
Sculptor
Greater Adelaide
Patrick Oliphant
Patrick Bruce Oliphant
Cartoons
Cartoon
Artist
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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
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Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
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I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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