Garry Trudeau quotes

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear. (Garry Trudeau)

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

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I had more flow as a designer. I could just drop down into the zone and stay there for hours. With cartooning, I'm constantly coming up for air, procrastinating, looking for reasons not to be doing it. I spend all day granting myself special dispensation, with 'creative process' as my cover story. Carpenters and deli countermen can't do that, so I think they may feel better about themselves at the end of the day.

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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

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I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

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Whether you think we belong in Iraq or not, we can't tune it out; we have to remain mindful of the terrible losses that individual soldiers are suffering in our name.

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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

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America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks,
you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. (Garry Trudeau)

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

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There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

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When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you. (Garry Trudeau)

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

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I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

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I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

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