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I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.

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I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.

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I just happen to believe that what's at stake in the early child's development is so vital and so important, and I think it is founded in the main, in the broad cultural sense, on the relationship between the mother and child.

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Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.

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Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

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To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.

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It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles.

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I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It's so impressive what they do with their bodies. It's like painting: an abstraction.

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The expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work. It's coming from a primal place rather than an intellectual place.

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For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Cartoonist

Born: June 2nd, 1945

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