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"One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead."
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"One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead."

"There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography."

"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory."

"In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail."

"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."

"I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!"

"Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying."

"A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so."

"I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography."

"I have a children's book already out and my autobiography."
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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."

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

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

"Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies."

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

"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."

"Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops."

"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."
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