Bill Watterson Quotes
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.
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I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.
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One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you. But there's still an anonymity in it.
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I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.
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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
