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"Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth."
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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
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"One must steer, not talk."
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"You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage."
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"Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die."
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"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."
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"Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?"
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"Always do something that requires you and your date to talk."
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"I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it."
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"It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow."
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"I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like."
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"Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element."
Time
"I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason."
Work
"Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth."
Talk
"Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing."
Delight
"In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true."
Imagination
"I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio."
Family
"I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women."
Woman
"I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect."
Thought
"In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted."
Imagination
"He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that."
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