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"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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"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something."
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"Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!"
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

"That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through."

"If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring."
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"What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character."

"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."

"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."

"I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons."

"I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it."

"Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race."

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

"While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience."
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