Quotes by Berkeley Breathed - Page 1

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Funny
Happiness
Happy
Childhood
Clever
Happy Childhood
Late
Never Too Late
Too Late
Never Too Late Late Never
Never
Too
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Elude
Genius
Irony
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He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Dying
Pages
Want
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The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Comic
Dying
Page
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If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Ifs
Serious
Anymore
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I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Digital Revolution
Fans
Mail
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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Our Lives
Paperback
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
News
Photographer
Texan
Texas
University
Daily
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I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Beer
Hate
Smoothies
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Deconstruction
Jokes
Tears
Cartooning
Joke
Gotta
Tear
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It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Laughing
Materials
Seeing
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Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Absolutes
Despite
Moral
Complex
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My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Book
Children
Instant
Writing
Resulted
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'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Children
Harry Potter
Plot
Suspense
Turns
Harry
Potter
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I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Bunch
Libertarian
Subtext
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And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Bunnies
Granny
Jammies
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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Childhood
Different
Different Place
Los Angeles
Angeles
Los
Wished
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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Apes
Evolution
Mind
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I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Cards
Guy
Hallmark
Holiday
Greeting
Holidays
Ignore
Million
Sold
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Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
County
Mockingbird
Tidy
Bloom
Lee
Rural
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My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Kids
Doors
Eye
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The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Littles
Needs
Sometimes
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It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Computers
Challenges
Digital
Mind
Sees
Well Enough
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If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Cat
If I Could
Years
Yelling
Me Day Every Day
Drawn
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And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Optimistic
Backwards
Picture Books
Beat
Emotionally
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Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Attention
Cartoonist
College
Influence
Overwhelming
Paying
Requisite
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Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Mind
Portions
Readership
Time Good Mind
Portion
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I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.
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America
College
Thinking
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The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Abstraction
Income
Wanted
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Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Comic
Comic Strips
Half Life
Lazy
Nuclear
Rich
Waste
Established
Cartoonists
End Result
Result
Strips
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Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Humor
Forgotten
Our Lives
Satisfying
Enter
Immediately
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Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Boys
Girlfriend
School
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Capacity
Endless
Fascination
Involved
Personality
States
Abject
Exist
Emotionally
Grave
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I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Comforting
Comic
Cynical
Emotion
Heart
Midst
Stripping
Ugly
Anchoring
Pull
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I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Art
Smile
Finished
Missing
Paint
Pieces
Pity
Wall
Miss
Terribly
Hang
Pays
Physical
Piece
Price
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I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Imagination
Adventure
Boys
Fake
Universe
Wish
Adventures
Boy
Confess
Drawn
Secretly
Strip
Throughout
Tiger
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I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Daughter
Mom
Calling
Default
Mars
Mother
Seconds
Term
Eventually
Moms
Similarly
Title
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I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Cruise
Including
Issues
Odd
People
Thinking
Me People Boring
Alike
Nearly
Magazine
Tom
Tom Cruise
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That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Anger
Failure
Cartoon
Drawing
Driving Force
Force
Hands
Heart
Stripping
Follows
Frankly
Hand
Interests
Opposed
Serve
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I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Children
Fans
Goodbye
Ironic
Midnight
Saying Goodbye
Sentimental
Stupid
Thirty
Drew
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I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Cleaning
County
Half Life
Nuclear
Paper
Papers
Waste
Writing
Years
Established
Bet
Bloom
Draw
Lady
Nose
Twenty
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Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Christmas
Funny
Smile
Food
Compassion
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Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Politics
Heart
Libertarian
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The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my material. The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that'd done them for a living. And I didn't have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn't have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.
Berkeley Breathed / Cartoonist
Artist
People
Should Have
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