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I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.

~Carl Barks

Topics: Always Circumstances Donald Everybody Everything Felt He Him Identify Like Make Makes Many Mistakes Myself Person Same Same Mistakes States United United States Unlucky Victim Who

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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

~Carl Barks

Topics: About Boy Boy Scout Could Eleven Ever Join Kid Never Oh Old Scout Scouts Ten Wanted Where Years

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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

~Carl Barks

Topics: Between Characters Difference Face Going Life No Difference Readers Were

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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

~Carl Barks

Topics: Always Been Beings Caricature Ducks Human Human Beings Knew Looked Middle Never Perhaps Tolkien World Writing Years

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I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.

~Carl Barks

Topics: Based Because Better Book Cover Covers Deal Doing Enjoyed Gag Great Great Deal Had Incident Little Make Own Part Plot Sense Simpler Still Story Tell Than Took Were

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I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

~Carl Barks

Topics: Away Cynicism Did Get Had Hell How Raw Read Really Recently Some Stories Them Thought

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: March 27th, 1901

Died: August 25th, 2000

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