If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
BILL WATTERSONThings are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
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Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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