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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.
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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!
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I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
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When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.
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I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers! Calvin: I just don't test well.
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They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.
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I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
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The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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I've always been a huge fan of fantasy and adventure, putting yourself in someone else's shoes, I'm sure that's why I'm an actor. It's why I played with action figures as a kid, that's why I wrote and drew and read comics as a kid.
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As Calvin and Hobbes went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what's going on in Calvin's head.
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Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.
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I'M SIGNIFICANT!!! ... Say's the dust speck.
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What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.
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I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
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I'm a misunderstood genius.
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Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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