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 BREATHEDThe 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.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us…
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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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.
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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.
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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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