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" Anyone who knows me, knows I don't walk away from a commitment, but I had a commitment to myself. Yes, there were times Nickelodeon made it more difficult than it needed to be, but there were also times they made it easier. "
Myself
Me
Walk
" I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass. "
Great
You
Art
" I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves. "
Running
Transplant
Years
" I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis. "
Useful
Than
Seen
" I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. "
First
Table
Still
" I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas 'are' funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier. "
Story
Us
Think
" I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently. "
Why
Skin
Performing
" I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for. "
Money
Thought
Film
" Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. "
Sings
Duet
Marriage
" Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. "
Patient
Dramatic
Improvement
" Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation. "
Healthy
Liver
Myself
" Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the 'Normal' environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio. "
Run
Normal
Only
" Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not. "
Said
Art
Money
" Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction. "
You
Ideas
Time
" Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well. "
Contribution
Politics
Sometimes
" The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality. "
Friend
Played
Adopted
" To the patient, any operation is momentous. "
Any
Momentous
Operation
" Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks. "
Double
Burn
Cancer
" We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers. "
Real
Industry
Estate
" When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time. "
Thought
Tough
Time
" When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else. "
Students
Reason
Art
" With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity. "
Curiosity
Dead
Woods
" Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator. "
Start
Prayer
Off
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