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"I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in."
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"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."
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"Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out."
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"Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it."
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"I was a smoker for about 20 years."
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"We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?"
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"Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years."
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"I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else."
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"I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it."
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"Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell."
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"You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet."
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"Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years."
Years
"Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought."
Thought
"Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year."
Rejection
"I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it."
Idea
"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."
Men
"Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot."
Office
"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."
Boxing
"I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons."
Life
"My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned."
Marriage
"After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines."
Cartoons
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