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"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."

"Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you."

"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."

"The purpose of employment is not to make money."

"Having a job is being busy."

"Work is designed to be a means of fulfilling your destiny."
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"Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on."

"Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62."

"Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood."

"Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience."

"At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil."

"I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on."

"The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer."
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