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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.” quote by Bil Keane — Download Open image

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

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I had this desk alongside the most beautiful Australian 18-year-old girl with long brown hair, and I got up enough nerve to ask her…

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I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me.

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A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.

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Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.

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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…

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We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons.

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I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.

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Even the strictest religious person from the strictest religious sect allows a little levity. Today, they congratulate you for carrying the Christian message into…

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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…

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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 think performing has pretty much always been a part of me.

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I always watch my matches back 100 times afterwards because that's how I improve. This is something I've always done, even in NXT.

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