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"It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there."
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"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
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"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."
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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."
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"I work with a couple charities called Serving Those Who Serve and Rebuilding Together. Both are supportive of veterans when they come home."
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"Let's just win it and go home."
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"I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head."
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"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."
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"Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be."
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"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you."
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"I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended."
Truth
"When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts."
Friendship
"I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within."
Work
"It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there."
Home
"The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later."
Age
"A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws."
Law
"I pitched my last children's show presentation in the mid 1980's. The era of locally produced children's shows was over and the networks were not and are not interested in children's television."
Children
"I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me."
Cartoons
"The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis."
People
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