Village

I hired Bob at

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I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked … Read more

How many times did

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How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, ‘You didn’t build that. You didn’t build that – no, you need government.’ We even saw Hillary Clinton say – remember her phrase – ‘It takes a village to raise a child.’ In other words, your children are not your children – they belong to the … Read more

A little group of

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A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn’t say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.
A. L. Rowse