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The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

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Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

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And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

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And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

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But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

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I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

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I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

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I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.

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I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

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I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 24th, 1906

Died: January 3rd, 1946

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