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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
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I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.
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It's always better to leave the party early.
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really blame people for preferring more of what they already know and like. The trade-off, of course, is that predictability is boring. Repetition is the death of magic.
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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
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Obviously the role of comics is changing very fast. On the one hand, comics are widely accepted and taken seriously. On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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I've never sat down to quantify how many hours I actually spend on the strip. I use the deadlines to estimate my progress each month I know that I have to produce so many strips, and by the end of the month I'll make sure that I have.
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The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.
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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.
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