I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
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Type: Statesman Born: June 16, 1829 Death: February 17, 1909 |
I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.

