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I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

Barry Blitt

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Barry Blitt
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: April 30
Artist
Cartoonist
Editorial Cartoonist
Illustrator
Côte Saint-Luc
Paid
Hold
Hoping
Player
Hockey
Alive
Realistic
Hope
Draw
Still
Pictures
Thinking
Players
Starting

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