Garry Trudeau Quotes

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Garry Trudeau

Profession : Cartoonist

Birth : July 21, 1948

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

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I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

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In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

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There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

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I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

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In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

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In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

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I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.

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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

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