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" Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer. "
Chuck Jones
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" I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do. "
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" Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age. "
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" The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. "
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" Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. "
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" Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires. "
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" When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. "
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" Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke. "
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" The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out. "
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" I started reading when I was about three, a little over three. "
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