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I think that school just isn't for everyone. A lot of people don't learn well when they're - have to sit in a place for eight hours. A lot of people learn best lying in their own bed, teaching themselves from books. And I was a bad student. I was a brat. If I was a teacher, I would not have liked myself. Molly Crabapple

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My real name - my real name is Jennifer Caban. Molly Crabapple

Name Real Real Name Jennifer

When you're an outsider, you don't have loyalties to anyone, so you can be cruelly honest if need be. The more you get inside, the more you are involved in polite networks of professional coercion that make people less honest. Molly Crabapple

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When you live in New York and are an artist and are interested in people, you meet a lot of people. Molly Crabapple

You People Live Meet New Lot York Artist New York Interested

No painting is ever not an infinitely reproducible image any more. Molly Crabapple

Painting More Infinitely Any Ever Image

Working as a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as an artist. If you're 19 and living cheap, being an artist model can sustain you. Molly Crabapple

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Well, 9/11 made me think about the towers, and the fact that I lived in New York for a long time, while they were being built. In fact, I had a studio that was ripped out, along with the whole neighborhood, to put the towers in. I saw them go up. I lived with them, running past them in the morning. And they were like part of my furniture. Mordicai Gerstein

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The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action. Morley

Hope Me Word Action Always

Hope is like compassion to me. It's like possibility and living in possibility. Morley

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Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did. Mort Walker

Research Everything About Only Write Know Did

Seven days without laughter makes one weak. Mort Walker

Laughter Seven Weak Days Without Makes

I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in. Mort Walker

Stars Back Finally Kicked Stripes Out Got Twice

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived. Mort Walker

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I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him? Mort Walker

War Home Army Thought Thinking Took Out Would Take Over Well Him Am Korean Korean War Beetle Going After

I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you're not going to get their permission, because you're going to make fun of them! Mort Walker

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None of the established museums were treating cartoons seriously. It was considered a lesser art or no art at all, just a way to sell newspapers. Even the syndicates who were dedicated to the cartoons were throwing them out, figuring they had no value after they were printed. Mort Walker

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Beetle is the embodiment of everybody's resistance to authority, all the rules and regulations which you've got to follow. He deals with it in his own way. And in a way, it's sort of what I did when I was in the Army. I just oftentimes did what I wanted to do. Mort Walker

Humor strips dominated what were called the funny papers early in the century, but by the 1920s and '30s, adventure strips had taken over. With 'Beetle Bailey,' I revived the funny part of the funny papers, and I'd be proud to be remembered for that. Mort Walker

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