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"After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines."
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"But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up."

"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."

"Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic."

"I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me."

"There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue."

"After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines."
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"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 was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

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

"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."

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

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

"Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years."

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

"High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances."
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