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"I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble."
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"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
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"The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe."
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"I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get."
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"The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it."
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"I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed."
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"I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear."
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"The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle."
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"I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you."
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"If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts."
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"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."
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"I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble."
Kids
"Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone."
Family
"And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then."
Childhood
"I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults."
Employment
"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
Nationality
"The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law."
Nation
"And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics."
Childhood
"The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math."
Writing
"But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says."
Love
"I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office."
Childhood
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