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I've done my job extremely well. My only beef is that a lot of people have put their fingers in whatever I've done and tried to screw it up, and I've always resented that.
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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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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I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, Yeah, that's what would happen - that was my objective.
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It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
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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 was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.
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Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.
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Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
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If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or duplicate what you've drawn, but it will never have that gut reality that's instinctive in the artist.
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I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.
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I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!
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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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Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
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Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.
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In the Army when we had judo classes, out of the class of 27 just me and another guy graduated. I grew to enjoy it because I knew I could do it well. I tried to do everything well.
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Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!
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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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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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If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.
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When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.
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