Pat Oliphant Quotes

• Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

  Pat Oliphant

  Drawing, Farmers, Wells

  "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20-21, 1997.

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• An outsider's point of view is always handy.

  Pat Oliphant

  Views, Outsiders, Point Of View

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.37, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Correct me if I'm wrong - the gizmo is connected to the flingflang connected to the watzis, watzis connected to the doo-dad connected to the ding dong.

  Pat Oliphant

  Dad, Connected, Ifs

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• I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

  Pat Oliphant

  Artist, Cartoon, Happens

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.74, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

  Pat Oliphant

  Trying

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.46, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

  Pat Oliphant

  Done, Students, Always Learning

  "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20 and 21, 1997.

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• There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

  Pat Oliphant

  Dragons, Old Days

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• We're all idealistic when young.

  Pat Oliphant

  Young, Idealistic

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.23, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

  Pat Oliphant

  Years, People, Doe

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.50, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

  Pat Oliphant

  Art, Strong, Black And White

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.17, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

  Pat Oliphant

  Editors, Facts, Readership

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.50, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

  Pat Oliphant

  People, Boring, Involved

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.20, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

  Pat Oliphant

  Thinking, Cartoon, Half

  "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20 and 21, 1997.

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• Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

  Pat Oliphant

  Australia, Today, States

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.37, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

  Pat Oliphant

  Years, Innovation, Style

  "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20 and 21, 1997.

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• Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

  Pat Oliphant

  Noble, Journalism, Knows

  "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20 and 21, 1997.

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• I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

  Pat Oliphant

  Hate, Taken, Administration

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