Carl Barks Quotes
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
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Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work.
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I am a city girl I think, at heart.
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You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
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I hope it won't take long.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
