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If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.
Tom Wilson
Experience
Try
Back
Had
Come
Different
Ever
These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.
Tom Wilson
You
Live
Something
Days
Within
Without
Income
It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
Walt Disney
Entertainment
People
Field
Every
Secret
Would
Totally
About
Something
No Secret
Had
New
Sticking
Were
Just
Interested
Really
Unique
Nickel
Chance
Disneyland is a show.
Walt Disney
Disneyland
Show
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
Walt Disney
Picture
Other
Am
Motion
Motion Picture
Any
Influenced
Company
Fashions
Techniques
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
Walt Disney
First
Puppet
Cartoon
Animated
Crude
Make
Sort
Course
Were
Very
Little
Then
Used
Actually
Things
Started
We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
Walt Handelsman
Ourselves
Able
Poke
Fun
I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.
Walt Handelsman
Day
You
Think
Cartoons
Beat
Head
Over
Audience
After
Your
Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.
Walt Handelsman
Static
Cartoons
Animated
Editorial
Different
I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.
Walt Handelsman
Love
Cartoon
Absolutely
Editorial
Still
Doing
Bread
Standard
Butter
With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.
Walt Handelsman
Time
You
Single
Down
Bite
Cartoon
Cartoons
More
Animated
Taking
Single Moment
Editorial
Information
Storytelling
Standard
Moment
Tons
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.
Will Eisner
Art
Ego
Key
Thinking
Guess
Out
Compounded
Almost
Combination
Always
Been
Art Form
Form
Literary
Fanatical
Engaged
Belief
Necessity
Two
To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.
William Steig
Truth
Books
Tell
Write
Adult
Read
Just
Children
Them
People are no damned good.
William Steig
Good
People
I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
Quentin Blake
Work
Home
Hate
I Am
Drawing
Something
Idea
Miss
Like
Am
Leaving
Going
Behind
Happening
Board
Might
It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
Quentin Blake
Accident
Circumstance
Married
Never
Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.
Quentin Blake
Disappointment
Reality
Television
Kind
TV
Find
Like
Chefs
Celebrity
Quite
Often
Want
Soaps
Reality TV
Hard
Watch
As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
Quentin Blake
Nature
You
Balance
Seen
Must
Ability
Having
Develop
Between
Look
Looked
Understand
Understood
Human
Human Body
Body
Capture
Away
Illustrator
Need
Imagine
If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
Quentin Blake
You
Yourself
Draw
Read
Want
Express
Helps
Express Yourself
Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
Quentin Blake
People
Sometimes
Painting
Think
Drawing
About
Highly
Skilled
Activity
Actually
I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
Quentin Blake
Education
Culture
People
Emotions
Important
Think
Enormous
Other
I Think
Out
Find
About
Read
Source
Children
Different
Different Things
Things
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
Quentin Blake
Success
Time
Painting
Though
One Time
Instinct
Well
Another
Always
Lot
Any
Done
Quite
Quite A Lot
Public
Painter
A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
Quentin Blake
Work
Travel
France
Libraries
Visiting
Schools
Partly
Least
Lot
I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.
Quentin Blake
Work
Me
Find
Like
Listen
Want
Either
Radio
I'm trained as a teacher; that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.
Quentin Blake
Teacher
Only
Got
Trained
The Only Thing
Certificate
Thing
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