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An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.

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Chuck Jones
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 21
Died: 2002
Died: February 22
Actor
Animation Director
Animator
Comics Artist
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Spokane
Washington
Charles Martin Jones
Charles M. Jones
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John
Drum
Idea
Keys
Duck
Fife
Stories
Court
Roger
Daffy
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Characters
Bucks
Mcenroe
Ideas
Personality
Ducks
Rogers
Without
Worth
Plot
Buck
Like
Player
Tennis
Implement
Forget
Players
Believable

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