Stephan Pastis quotes - page 2

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store. (Stephan Pastis)
This is every creative person's dream - a hobby that I'm lucky enough to get paid for. View quote
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I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability. View quote
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Repeats are the worst, and 'Peanuts' was the one that started that. They don't rerun the news, do they? They don't repeat any other part of the paper. Why do they do it in the comics? View quote
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When you do anything creative, you really have to live entirely in that world. I think my ability to do that is what makes me such a bad dinner guest. I'm always looking over someone's shoulder, taking in stuff around the room, immersed in the world of whatever I'm writing about, and keeping the characters completely in my head. View quote
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For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca. View quote
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I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal. View quote
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If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes. View quote
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Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sense is so offensive I'm assuming it's some sort of accident you'll want to fix. View quote
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When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders. View quote
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I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun. (Stephan Pastis)
It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars. View quote
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Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen. View quote
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Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24) View quote
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The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about. View quote
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When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any. View quote
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My wife Staci made me go to a wedding last weekend...If it weren't for her, I'd be happy. View quote
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I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'. View quote
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