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" My favorite caricaturist is Al Hirschfeld. I'm always trying to give my caricatures that streamlined quality - and I often fall short. "
Steve Breen
Short
Trying
Always
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" We can self-censor ourselves for various reasons, but we can't live in a world where some person or some group decides what's offensive and what's not. "
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" Birthplace of Obama: Oahu. Birthplace of Obama's budget policies: Neverland. "
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" Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address. "
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" A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions. "
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" It's sometimes hard to wrap your head around a big story, and for most of us drawing editorial cartoons 9/11/ 01, that was the biggest story of our professional lives. "
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" Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint. "
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" It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch lines and captions. Be funny now! And if you're not inspired, they don't care - be funny now! They have to fill that hole the next day. "
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" I'm fully aware that not every cartoon is Pulitzer material. That said, I'm proud of my Pulitzer portfolio, the 20 that got judged. "
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" When I look at someone's face, there's something in my brain that just clicks - that breaks down their face into the elements that go into a caricature. It might be like the way a chef tastes a dish and can break down into elements what went into it. "
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Down
" I developed my love for the news because of my love for international news. "
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Love
" Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature. "
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" My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing. "
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Arrow
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" When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union. "
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Union
Starting
" No one should ever be hurt or killed for saying, writing or drawing anything. "
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" I loved practical jokes. I loved being goofy on the playground, and I loved doing silly cartoons, but I was not this subversive little delinquent. I am an Eagle Scout, after all. "
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Scout
Loved
I Am
" I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs. "
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New
Go
" My parents always got a kick out of my art. I was always able to make them laugh. As I got older, I remember the thrill I got when I graduated from making my classmates laugh to making adults laugh. Kind of a watershed moment. "
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" For an encore, I might do health-care cartoons using my own blood. That will be my last act. "
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My Own
Act
Own
" Comic-Con is incredibly important to San Diego, but that doesn't mean we can't poke a little fun at it! "
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San Diego
Little
Important
" Personally, I try to be provocative but not needlessly provocative in my work. "
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Personally
Provocative
Try
" I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board. "
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Pen
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Ink
" As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for. "
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" Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate! "
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" I have four boys and two girls, and the girls, they typically want you to draw princesses, Tinkerbell, Cinderella, things like that. "
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