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"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."
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"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."
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"Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents."
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"Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best."
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"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."
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"If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em."
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"Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at."
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"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
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"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh."
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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."
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"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."
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"The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out."
Love
"Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age."
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"Each character represented a trait that resides in me."
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"Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter."
Art
"The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be."
Work
"If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings."
Character
"We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change."
Art
"If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth."
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"I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny."
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"Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer."
Creativity
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