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" Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way. "
Just
Different
Think
" Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness. "
You
Graduation
Force
" I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds. "
Self-Help
Books
Enough
" I loved Charles Addams more than anything. Still love him. "
Love
Him
Anything
" I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them. "
Graduation
Will
Loved
" I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works. "
Myself
Ever
Working
" In L.A., you can put out a craft-service table anywhere, and it's no big deal. But in New York, people who walk by it on the street get really angry about it. "
Walk
People
Angry
" In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day. "
Nice
Los Angeles
Day
" In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day. "
Day
Always
Feelings
" In New York, all the crews read 'The New Yorker.' In Los Angeles, they don't know from 'The New Yorker.' "
Know
Los Angeles
New
" I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business. "
Short
Support
Myself
" It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset. "
Less
Me
Draw
" It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them. "
New
Time
Week
" I've had to whine for everything I've ever really wanted. "
Whine
Everything
Ever
" James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw. "
I Can
Thought
School
" Of course I loved 'I Love Lucy' and saw every episode over and over again. I found it heartbreaking that Ricky got to be famous and have an exciting life at the Tropicana while Lucy was stuck in that terrible apartment with the Mertzes. "
Famous
Loved
Life
" One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence. "
Time
Then
You
" Shooting in Los Angeles is always pleasant and comfortable. Shooting in New York is like being on 'Survivor.' "
New York
Los Angeles
Always
" Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying. "
People
Reading
Just
" Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking. "
Sitting
Only
Desk
" We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us. "
Us
Dolls
Back
" We only got clothing once a year, like, right before school began. It's like, that's when you got your clothing. "
Clothing
Like
Right
" What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment. "
Life
Like
Opportunity
" When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad. "
Ideas
Bad
Because
" When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV. "
Just
Much
TV
" When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.' "
Watching
You
Kid
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