Joseph Barbera Quotes
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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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Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
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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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My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
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I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.
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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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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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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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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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What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
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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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I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
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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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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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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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When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
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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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Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.
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I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.
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Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
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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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Except for me, no one in my family could draw.
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Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
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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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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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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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Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
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I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
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My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.
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