We’ve collected the best Strip Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: John Updike, Matt Groening, Keith Allen, Alison Bechdel, Ronen Bergman. Use them as an inspiration.
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I am certain things to certain generations. Lots of people remember me from the ‘Comic Strip,’ there was the ‘Vindaloo’ song for the 1998 World Cup, then it was playing the Sheriff of Nottingham in the BBC’s ‘Robin Hood.’
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I loved Le Taha’a private resort in Tahiti. It’s accessible only by private boat or helicopter, and it sits on a tiny strip of land just big enough for one hotel. It’s extraordinary and faces the Vanilla Island where Tahitians grow vanilla.
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I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that’s happened in the strip has happened to me.
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I tried to do a comic strip. I came close, and I met with Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City, but ultimately, they did not go with my strip.
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The standard publishing contract is replete with clauses that strip authors of control over their books.
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I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.
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I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It’s really not all lesbians any more.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I’ve discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.
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Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities as part of its broader goal of creating new subjects wedded to consumerism, risk-free relationships, and the destruction of the social state.
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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 take inspirations from newspaper strip cartoonists who look for ways of expanding their characters’ worlds once they have established the initial concept of their strips.
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When I was reading the Bible, I came across the word ‘meek.’ It means to be humble. I asked God, I want to become meek, allow me to become meek. About two months later I was struck with cancer. I realized this was God testing me. If you want to become appreciative, and humble, and meek, I’ll strip you of everything.
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But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.
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Most people when they go to Vegas want to go to places on the Strip and experience the big names. Actually in Las Vegas, I find the best restaurants are off the Strip.
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What I really – and I would like to clarify my position, to topple Hamas. And I think it’s possible to bring reasonable people, moderate people to take power in Gaza Strip.
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With ‘I Want Action,’ I think people take it in the context of the Sunset Strip and the party scene; it was tongue-in-cheek.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
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The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.
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I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you’ve found the skeleton – that’s what you trust – you reclothe.
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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don’t go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
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Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for the suspicion of collaborating with Israel, have nothing to do with Israel.
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Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today‘s masterpiece is tomorrow‘s birdcage lining.
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I keep up with James Kochalka’s online strip, and if I see a link somewhere or someone tells me about something, I’ll look at it, but I don’t usually keep up with any sites other than the ‘American Elf.’ I always have this feeling that there’s not enough space in the screen, like everything’s always getting cut off.
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What I love about Vegas is that we have the mountains and the Strip. There is always something to do.
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Generally, I liked feeling able to connect with millions of women on a very deep level. It felt special that women especially would cut out my strip and place it on a refrigerator.
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I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, ‘My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.’ I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I’d had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I’d like to do that again.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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I use pure acetone Nail Polish Remover from Nails Inc. to really strip the nail. It’s actually important to dehydrate your nail a little bit to get rid of all of the oil before you put color on; then the color will really stick. Then, I use OPI Bond Aid. It’s a liquid dehydrator that you paint onto each nail.
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I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don’t think people really know what that means – they think the Beach Boys. I’m thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that.
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With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn’t there. The parents were never in the picture.
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I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there’s no substitute for reality and politicians.
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If I had rolled along with the strip’s popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now ‘grieving‘ for ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ would be wishing me dead.
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You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
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I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they’re detective stories.
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When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn’t write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.
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Strip away the factual misinformation repeatedly peddled about the Human Rights Act and almost everyone acknowledges that it works well in practice. Police up and down the country have found the Human Rights Act a much clearer and firmer basis for practical policing than the common law ever was.
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Music is multi-dimensional: it’s all in the feeling. Sometimes I feel like looping; sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I want to strip it back, play instruments I’ve never played before.
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I’ve really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams’s perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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Many of us were raised with the ‘be a lady‘ thing, and all those kind of things that can be used against you and strip you out of opportunity and power.
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The argument that gay marriage doesn’t affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
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But I think you can strip the emotion and the subjectivity away while you focus on doing the science – and that’s really important.
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I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
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A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths.
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I always use some fake lashes for any kind of dressed-up face, whether it’s a few individual lashes, or a dramatic strip. I find that fake lashes really bump the beauty up a notch and make me feel great.
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The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.
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When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer – to get to the truth.
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During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and ‘style‘ as much as I could, since I knew that I’d calcify as I got older.
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Ben and I have absolutely nothing to do with the Hollywood that’s all actors and the Sunset Strip. We crave talking to people who do different things and are passionate about it.
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I’ve been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.
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I like the Suncoast so much. It is miles from the Strip. It reminds me of the old Vegas atmosphere when things were a little more personal.
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I’m not always in a full face of make-up! That’s actually one of the things I like about make-up – that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.
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‘Dilbert’ became popular during the downsizing of the ’90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
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The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.
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With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home – it makes it easier for women that don’t want to go to the gym.
