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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.
Joseph Barbera
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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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One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
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Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
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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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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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Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.
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Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.
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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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I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
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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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I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.
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I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.
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What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
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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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