Jules Feiffer Quotes - Page 3

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• I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.

  Jules Feiffer

  War, Dumb, Cold

  Source: bigthink.com

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• At the time, liberals didn't understand that they had First Amendment rights. So, I was doing cartoons in this narrative cartoon form about subject surrounding that and as I was turned down by editor after editor at each publishing house, I began to notice on their desks this new newspaper called The Village Voice, which I then went and picked up and thought, well my god, these editors that were turning me down all, whom tell me how much they like my stuff, but they don't know how to market it because nobody knows who I am. If I got into this paper, they would know who I am.

  Jules Feiffer

  House, Cartoon, First Amendment

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've been around a long time and I've found that these forms, whether it's the cartoon, or whether it's a play, or all these dying forms refuse to die. Something happens to rejuvenate them and it will certainly happen to the political cartoon. It will come back. But whether it's on the internet, or whether it's in some other form, however that works, whether it looks the way it looks now, or entirely different, I have no idea. And thank God I don't have to worry about it.

  Jules Feiffer

  Long, Worry, Political

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's the excitement of adding color, which I didn't know anything about until 1997 or so, when I did my first picture book. So, the kid's book in particular have been exciting for me because it forced me to go back to the work I loved as a young boy reading Sunday's supplements and comics in the Sunday papers when I was six, seven, eight, nine. And number of which have been in wonderful collections, beautifully reproduced.

  Jules Feiffer

  Book, Reading, Sunday

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I found it was my good fortune to somehow be able to work in these forms that I loved when I was a kid. I love movies and I could write screenplays. I love theater and I could write plays. I mean, they would be my own, I could never write what was used to be called the well-made play. But my first play, "Little Murders," turned out to be a great success and a great influence on plays at that time.

  Jules Feiffer

  Mean, Kids, Writing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm well beyond dyslexic: I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am.

  Jules Feiffer

  Wells, Dyslexic, Knows

  "Jules Feiffer, Sketchy Character". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

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• Kids are in ongoing need of support, and they get various versions of it from grownups which aren't legitimate - a grownup's version of what we think you should have. We tell you what creativity is, and we even tell you what you're thinking.

  Jules Feiffer

  Creativity, Kids, Thinking

  "Jules Feiffer, Sketchy Character". Interview with Clara Jeffrey, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

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• I think we overrate experience and what we've been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap.

  Jules Feiffer

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Jules Feiffer, Sketchy Character". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

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