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"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."
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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."
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"It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time."
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"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."
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"The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age."
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"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."
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"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."
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"Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media."
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"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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."
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"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
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