Matt Groening Quotes

• I’ve loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I’ve read quite extensively as an adult.

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• I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.

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• I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don’t get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.

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• I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That’s what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

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• I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I will do it again.

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• I also found child’s play – stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy – was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

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• God often gives nuts to toothless people.

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• Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

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• Everybody doesn’t have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

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• Eat my shorts!

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• Donuts. Is there anything they can’t do?

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• Don’t have a cow, man.

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• Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

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• Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

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• A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told – obeyed – everything would be fine. But that’s not what life is all about. That’s not real. It’s never going to happen.

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• A lot of our writers, like Conan O’Brien, moved on to other things.

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• Where do babies come from? Don’t bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called “making love”. Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some graffiti was once observed that said “sex is good”. All available evidence, however, points to the contrary.

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Matt Groening (37)

Birth:	15th February, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist, Producer, Screenwriter

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