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Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
Joseph Barbera
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What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
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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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I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.
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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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Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.
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After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.
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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 cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
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What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.
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My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.
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I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.
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Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
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You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.
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