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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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I wasn't having any luck getting accepted anyway and it forced me to re-examine what it was that I really wanted to do. In my experience in political cartooning, I was never one of those people who read the headlines and foams at the mouth with rabid opinion that I've just got to get down on paper.
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it!
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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 wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.
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Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.
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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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Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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What state do you live in? Denial.
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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
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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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I'm a misunderstood genius.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.
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Mom’s not feeling well. So I’m making her a get well card.” “That’s thoughtful of you.” See, on the front it says, ‘Get Well Soon’ … and on the inside it says,’Because my bed isn’t made, my clothes need to be put away and I’m hungry. Love Calvin.’ Want to sign it?” “Sure, I’m hungry too
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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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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.
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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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