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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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Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
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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 think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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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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Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.
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The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!
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I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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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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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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Hobbes: What are you doing? Calvin: Being cool. Hobbes: You look more like you're being bored. Calvin: The world bores you when you're cool. Hobbes: Look, I brought a sombrero! Now we can both be cool. Calvin: A sombrero?! Are you crazy?! Cool people don't wear sombreros! Hobbes: What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?
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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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