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"Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward."
"I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?"
"We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world."
"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."
"What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?"
"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."
"I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook."
"We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world."
"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."
"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
Explore more quotes by Carl Barks
"I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make."
"I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them."
"There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face."
"I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts."
"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."
"I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it."
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