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If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
Author
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
Badly
Asked
Jobs
Enough
Sometimes

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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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I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
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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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You know, maybe we don't need enemies. Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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I'm a man of few words. If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.
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I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.
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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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CALVIN: Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.
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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse
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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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Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I mean, really, all I'm doing is saying I can be bribed.
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I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.
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Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.
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