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"50 Jack Kirby Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 28 August 1917. Died: 6 February 1994 | Artist | Writer | Editor |

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

Real Guy Beat Would Be
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I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

Characters People Having Hope Feels
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Our dreams make us large.
Dream Our Dreams Make Large
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It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.

Men He Man Brushe Tools
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Kid ... Comics will break your heart.

Heart Kids Break Break Your Heart
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There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could.

Hurt Lying People Suffering
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I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

Art Literature Common Publishing
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I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

Art Artist Men Common
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Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

Men Giving Mona Lisa Come Up
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I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

Men Thinking Accomplish Feel
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Life at best is bittersweet.
Life Bittersweet Sweet Life Inspire
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Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.
Once Learned Enough About
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If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.
Men Thinking Stealing Draws
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I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.

Writing People Black Enemy
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Perfectionists are their own devils.

Perfectionist Their Own Devils
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I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

Interesting Settling Good Enough Enough
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All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.
Capability Humans Want Human
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A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

A Character Contrived Like
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I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

Lying Men Suffering Speak
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I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

Men Good Man Trying Sincere
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I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get 10 years for punching a sergeant so I couldn't punch a sergeant.

Army Life Taking Orders Discipline Yelled
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I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no rapport with. I see dirty language, I see sleazy backgrounds; I see it reflected in the movies, the movies are comics to me. And I don't see a sleazy world. I see hope. I see a positive world.

Dirty World Language Comic
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I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.

People Done Artistic Masterpiece
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I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

Never Done Anything Half Heartedly
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I've done my job extremely well. My only beef is that a lot of people have put their fingers in whatever I've done and tried to screw it up, and I've always resented that.

People Done Beef Fingers
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I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.

Children Home Men Wife
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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

Feel Characters All Some Part
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You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.

Hurt Guy Other Guy Want
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Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in the movies. I knew the real ones, and the real ones were out for big money.

Real Stereotype Gangster Big
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Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.

Wrote Story What Really
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Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So you were mostly on your own.

Kind Brands Brand New Comics
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I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.

Hurt Party People Conflict
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I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

Fighting Guy Trying Care
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I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.
Perfection Style Storytelling Type
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A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.

Hurt Powerful Men Style
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My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.

Style Ability Anatomy Feel
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My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in comics.

Evil Lovable Made Monsters
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I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six.

Sport Guy Other Guys
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I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.

People Forever Done Patient
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I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best.

High Respect Pratt Institute Done My Best
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I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.
Admired Anybody Could Make
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I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.

Independent Men Feeling Kind
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I always resent anybody interfering with anybody else trying to do his job. Everybody has his own job to do. If he's good, he'll do well, but if he's mediocre, he's not going to do as well as he should.

Trying Mediocre Resent Interfere
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Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

Kind Admire Field Performer
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I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.

Ego Selling Thorough Not
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I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

School Rainy Day One Day Wonder
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My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

Believe Writing Style I Believe
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I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

Fighting Long Kind Enjoy
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I didn't resolve the questions... and I find that entertaining. And if my life were to end tomorrow, it would be fulfilled in that manner. I would say, 'The questions have been terrific.'

Tomorrow Resolve End Entertaining
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Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

Mother Father Men Shopping
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Jack Kirby Quotes & Sayings