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Bil Keane Quotes

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 5, 1922 - November 8, 2011

Topics

Heart Eye Laugh Nostalgia Go Belly

I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven't heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas.

Art Me Ideas Back I Can Run

TV's not the problem, and I'm tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV's getting in your way of writing a book, then you don't want to write a book bad enough.

Creativity Tired Writing Book Enough

As the owner, you have to look into the mind of the customer and see and feel how their relationship to your product works - not just that the product works.

Relationship Mind Customer You Look

When I decided I wanted to be an actor in high school, I really went into improv. I took classes at The Groundlings. I studied acting. Did sketch comedy in L.A.

School High School Comedy Acting Did

In 1984, as a college freshman, I spent a fall weekend at a friend's house in suburban Chicago. His father worked for Beatrice Foods, a sponsor of the Chicago Marathon, and we watched that race from the finish line as a Welshman named Steve Jones set a new world marathon record. I was bewitched by the race and, especially, the clock.

Friend Father College World Weekend

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

Work Commitment City World Doing

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Politics Democracy You Vote Dislike

With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.

Impossible Pie Low Get Benefits

My work is all about how we consume. To me it's important to know where things come from. Generally, our products today are so cheap, you know there's something wrong. Things are not made in a good way. I want to make things that are. I want to make the story behind products visible.

Christien Meindertsma

Work Good Today Me Story You

I'm certainly not a white supremacist.

White Certainly

A little personal trick: apply brown eyeliner throughout the day and then just add a little black over the top for a night look.

Day Night Black Look Personal Top

Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.

Rain People Me Stand I Can Who Am I

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