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.
BIL KEANEToday is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
More Bil Keane Quotes
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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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Time goes by at such a pace,it’s funny how it’s easy to forget her face
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Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
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God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
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We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
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A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
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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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I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
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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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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.
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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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God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
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I don’t just try to be funny.
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I didn’t always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the ‘L’ out of me.
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I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
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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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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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Goal begins with “GO.”
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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 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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On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can’t tell what you’re going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.
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Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
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We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
BIL KEANE