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 BREATHEDI 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.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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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.
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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.
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And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
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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.
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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.
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I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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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.
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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.
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He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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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.
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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.
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