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“Plastic surgery is such a displacement. If people feel good in their skin, then they're beautiful, end of story.”

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Françoise Mouly, born on October 24, 1955, is an accomplished editor with a significant impact on the fields of children's literature and illustration. She is particularly renowned for her editorial work at The New Yorker magazine. more

“Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's definitely an integrated experience for me. Much more than any kind of cheap, emotional pulls that you get in popular culture, when I read a sentence and it's beautifully written, it can bring me to tears.”

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Author:Francoise Mouly

“The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.”

Real Use Rain Irony

Author:Greg Kinnear

“I know what I as an editor respond to is a voice. A voice is not just a stylistic thing, but it means someone who really has something to say. I think a lot of what I get from books - whether they be books of comics or books of literature - is a window into somebody's mind and their way of thinking. Somehow, I can recognize some of my feelings in seeing somebody who is actually expressing their own inner reality.”

Thinking Mind Mean Book Feelings Reality Literature Window

Author:Francoise Mouly

“Art uses many different styles, but his voice is very consistent. He's always concise and clever and funny. That's true of somebody like Chris Ware, who has an emotional quality to his work - but it's boiled down and it's very sober and spare. Each word has great weight. Comics are not just pictures, but it is graphic design in the sense that they are composed and architected in a specific way.”

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Author:Francoise Mouly

“It's useful to be born in a different culture because you see things that are not obvious. I come from France. In France, there isn't a pretense of objectivity in publishing. I discovered - and I don't agree with it - that in the US, the New York Times or The New Yorker has to pretend to be objective, and if they present this point of view then they have to also present the other side.”

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Author:Francoise Mouly

“The artists catch what's in the air. It's not because the artist "felt like it" or is a guru who channels the truth of the universe in some opaque, abstract way, or even in a realistic painting. The comics artist is someone who has the humility to set himself up in public culture and to communicate with the reader. If your image doesn't make sense, it's your problem, and I shouldn't publish it.”

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Author:Francoise Mouly

“A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?".”

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Author:Zephyr Teachout

“Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.”

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Author:Zephyr Teachout

“If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.”

People Done Mistake Democracy Making Mistakes

Author:Zephyr Teachout

“This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.”

People Believe Politician Telling The Truth

Author:Zephyr Teachout

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