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Garry Trudeau Biography

Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip. Trudeau is also the creator and executive producer of the Amazon Studios political comedy series Alpha House.

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Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader. . . But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

Humor, Judgment, Move, Moving, Responsibility

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Compromise, Compromises, Contradictions, People, Trying

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

College, Drug, Order, Overthrowing, Supply

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

Desperate, Man, Men, Week

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

Absolutism, Becomes, Expression, Free Expression, Point

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

Character, Characters, Fiction, Happy, Things, Writing

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Becoming, Exercise, Feminine, Ideal, Insecurity, Surgery

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

Character, Education, Happy, Self Esteem, Sides, Simply

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

Bound, Bounds, Mirrors, Smoke

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility

Absolutism, Context, Discussed, Responsibility, Should

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

Allows, Happens, Skill, Skills, Underwear

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

Clients, Day, Editors, Expectations, Strip, Trying

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

Good, Littles, Perspective, Pieces, Pointillist

The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

Military, Moving, Nice, Strips, Suffering, Wounded

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

Consulting, Decision, Decisions, Doctors, State, Want

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

Favourite, Lifestyle, Presence, Require, Trying

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

America, Arrogance, Failure, Oneself, Places

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

Attainable, Complete, Culture, Frustration, Goal, Pain

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

Dumb, Gets, Information, Political

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are

Event, Exactly, Secret, Views, War

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