I don’t have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That’s more important to me than a laugh.
BIL KEANEWhen I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late ’30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
More Bil Keane Quotes
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Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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Time goes by at such a pace,it’s funny how it’s easy to forget her face
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I like to feel that what I’m doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It’s a subject that is near and dear to me.
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Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children’s rhyme
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I don’t have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That’s more important to me than a laugh.
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Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children’s rhyme
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Goal begins with “GO.”
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I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
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OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
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In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
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We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I’m getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you’re gonna let me in I’m getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
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I don’t just try to be funny.
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OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
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I don’t just try to be funny.
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