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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Washington
District of Columbia
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The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself.
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Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.
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For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.
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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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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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Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.
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I'll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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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 mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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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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If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.
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Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what?
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Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.
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