George Meyer quotes
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“Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.”
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“If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good”
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“The only rule was that the stuff had to be funny and pretty short. To me, the quintessential Army Man joke was one of John Swartzwelder's: 'They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?' It's a horrifying idea juxtaposed with something really banal-and yet there's a kind of logic to it. It's illuminating because it's kind of how Americans see things: Life's a big jumble, but somehow it leads to something I can consume. I love that.”
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“Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.”
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“There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“I don't know what the universe is all about, but to me, nothing is gained by slapping a God sticker on it. It has never been a comfort to me to believe there's an all-seeing eye in the sky.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“The people who seem to have a lock on power get swept out in a couple of years. So it's naïve to keep swinging at the same targets over and over. It took me a long time to realize, but most of the shackles that I flailed against were just illusory.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“I don't like that The Simpsons are spokespeople for Burger King and MasterCard and Butterfinger. In the first Gulf War, I was really upset that the Simpsons characters were being drawn on tanks and bombs. But those are things that I don't control.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.”
-- George MeyerSource : Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. September 1, 2004.
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“To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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“There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.”
-- George MeyerSource : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
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