"I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle."
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"I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist."
"As I got into the animation, as I learned more about the business, I learned that you need a lot of people to do anything animated - even a short, let alone a feature film. And you need a lot of money."
"Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the outside ... but there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that."
"Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!"
"Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression."
"Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth."
"The 20-G Centrifuge is our largest facility certified for use by humans. Its capabilities make it a unique NASA resource and a very versatile research tool that is ideal for developing health-maintenance activities for astronauts."
"I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures."
"I think people have a little wall they throw up real quick if they see swords and sorcery."
"I think the audience is truly all ages: I don't put anything in there that kids can't see, or shouldn't see, but I have to keep it interesting for me as an adult"
"I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction."
"Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES!"