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All Quotes by author - Joseph Barbera

" Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth. "

" I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive. "

" I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in. "

" I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving. "

" I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day. "

" I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons. "

" In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators. "

" I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me. "

" I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall. "

" Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. "

" Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all. "

" My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons. "

" My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. "

" My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned. "

" Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot. "

" One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. "

" Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children. "

" Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops. "

" Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race. "

" That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming. "

" There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more. "

" What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character. "

" What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter. "

" When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking. "

" While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience. "

" You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught. "

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