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"My first character was Mr. Toad."
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"Our behavior to ordinary people depicts our actual nature."
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"The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion."
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"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."
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"It is better to be gentle than rude."
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"Developing a true and solid character and finding unique traits that belong to only you is a foundational thing."
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"The kindest mind is the most beautiful mind!"
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"Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions."
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"Be the type of man a wife would cherish and a child would admire."
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"Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody.Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.If you do dislike him it will be because you feel a little envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all."
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"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
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"Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything."
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"When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing."
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"The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light."
American

"Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days."
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"If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip."
Life

"I just became one with my browser software."
Software

"A full, rich drawing style is a drawback."
Style

"Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively."
People

"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut."
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"I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer."
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