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

Bill Watterson

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

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