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Bill Griffith

"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."

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"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."

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"I try not to do anything by formula."

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"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."

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"Under each formula lies a corpse."

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"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"

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"It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One."

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"Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula."

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A.E. Samaan

"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."

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A.E. Samaan

"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."

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"I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula."

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"They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera."

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"She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister."
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"Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity."
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"Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece."
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"If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip."
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"Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America."
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"What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong."
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"Zippy is living in the moment."
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