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When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
Joseph Barbera
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Joseph Barbera
Age: 95 †
Born: 1911
Born: March 24
Died: 2006
Died: December 18
Animator
Bank Teller
Executive Producer
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Writer
New York City
New York
Joseph Roland Barbera
Joseph Roland Joe Barbera
Animators
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I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.
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My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
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The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.
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I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.
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Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
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One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
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While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
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So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.
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Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
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In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.
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Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
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My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.
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Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.
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Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.
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That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
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There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
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High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.
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I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.
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