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What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

Bill Watterson

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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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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.
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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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If you've ever compared a film to a novel it's based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It's inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie's needs get served.
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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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If you can't win by reason, go for volume.
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You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a graphic novel, but comic books are still incredibly stupid.
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I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!
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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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Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart - almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes
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I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.
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Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.
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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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I'm a misunderstood genius.
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