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Matt Groening Biography

Matthew Abraham Groening (/ˈɡreɪnɪŋ/ ( listen) GRAY-ning; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, animator, and voice actor. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell (1977–2012) and the television series The Simpsons (1989–present), Futurama (1999–2003, 2008–2013), and the upcoming Disenchantment (2018). The Simpsons has gone on to become the longest-running U.S. primetime-television series in history, as well as the longest-running animated series and sitcom.

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I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt. . . I can't compete with that stuff.

Dirt, Fancy, Kinds, Stuff

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try. ' Homer Simpson

Funny, Homer, Lesson, Life, Simpson, Trying

The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other and then I can just go home and they don't know.

Home, Tv Shows, Two, Time, Shows, Having

Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address.

Bored, Kissing, Left, Moved, Passionless, Warning

If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

Funny, Humor, People, Love, Hated

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

Judge, Judging, Miserable, Pay, Used

I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

Wine, Snakes, Owl, Nacho, Underpants

We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons. '

Doctor, Doctors, Fiction, Stars, Trek, War

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

Enjoyed, Know, Knows

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J. G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

Arthur, Book, Kids, Loved, Reading, Represent

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

250, Comic, Hell, Life, Newspapers, Plan

I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

Appetite, Club, Clubs, Funny Simpsons, Sandwich, Sandwiches

Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

Clever, Everybody, Way, Ways

I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

Adult, Adults, Children, Found, Goofy, Play

With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

Boundaries, Character, Draw, Loose, Tendency, Want

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Dance, Dancing, Dream, Love, Machine, Turns

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

Hard, More Time, Parent, Spent, Time, Tvs

I personally like the idea of newspapers. It's a good format. You can read it in whatever order you want. You can glance at it. There is something about a single screen and scrolling through pages that just doesn't have the same appeal.

Ideas, Order, Pages, Read, Screen, Want

It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.

Cast, Character, Funny, Moving, Secondary

We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that's why there hasn't been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they'll start doing movies.

Air, Killed, Same, Tv Shows, Years

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