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Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.
Jack Kirby
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Jack Kirby
Age: 76 †
Born: 1917
Born: August 28
Died: 1994
Died: February 6
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Jacob Kurtzberg
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I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.
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I never duck out of a fight I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.
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I've never done anything half-heartedly. It's the reason my comics did well. It's the reason my comics were drawn well. I can't do anything bad.
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Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
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I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six.
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Our dreams make us large.
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I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.
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I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.
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I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
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I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.
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I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were a challenge - what kind of monster would fascinate people?
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Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
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I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.
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Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.
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I didn't resolve the questions... and I find that entertaining. And if my life were to end tomorrow, it would be fulfilled in that manner. I would say, 'The questions have been terrific.'
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I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.
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My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.
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My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.
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I couldn't draw anything that was too outlandish or too horrible. I never did that. What I did draw was something intriguing. There was something about this monster that you could live with. If you saw him you wouldn't faint dead away.
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A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.
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