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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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"There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand."
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"I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic."
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"Gift the children corruption free nation. Happy Children's day."
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"All my children inherited perfect pitch."
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"I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids."
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"Children reinvent your world for you."
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"I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch."
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"It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children."
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"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends."
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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'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
"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 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
"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."
Law
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