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"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."
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"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."
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"Gift the children corruption free nation. Happy Children's day."
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"Children dwell in their dreams. Get them the wings and they'll fly."
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"More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart " more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi " more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton."
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"I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring."
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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
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"Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel."
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"The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that."
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"I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children."
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"I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place."
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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."
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'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me."
Cartoons
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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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