180 Quotes by Michael Leunig

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    Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work.

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    Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the end of the day.

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    My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

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    What makes an interview 'difficult'? Well, there are many reasons, but the end result is usually the same: The guest just doesn't seem comfortable answering the question.

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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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    The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

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