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• Suddenly he stops. He looks up. For, lo, there she stands. The girl of his dreams. Who she is or whence she came, he knows not, nor does he care for his heart tells him that here, here is the maid predestined to be his bride.

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  Girl, Dream, Heart

  "Fictional character: Grand Duke". "Cinderella", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.

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  Simple, Ideas, People

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• Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive.

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  Dream, Breathing, Ideas

  "The Rides of Passage". "Via" magazine, July 2005.

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• I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

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  Character, Personality, Cartoon

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• We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.

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  Kings, Queens, Kings And Queens

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• While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.

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  Inspirational, Worry, Planning

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• We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.

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  Determination, Criticism, Trying

  "Disneyland, 1955: Just Take the Santa Ana Freeway to the American Dream". American Art, 1991.

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• [Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

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  Brother, Business, Years

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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• When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

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  Being Yourself, Art, Book

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• The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.

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  Halloween, Scared, Neighborhood

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• In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.

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  Life, Zest, Bad Times

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• All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.

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  Jobs, Different, Routine

  "Walt Disney: Conversations". Book by Kathy Merlock Jackson, 2006.

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• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

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  Thinking, Growth, Goes On

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• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

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  People, Laughing, Secret

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• At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks... until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.

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  Mean, Laughing, Personality

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• I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.

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  Character, Greatness, Animal

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.134, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.

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  Thinking, People, Realization

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• You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

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  Kids, Disney Animation, Adults

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• I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

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  Bad Day, Past, Looks

  "Fictional character: Edna Mode". "The Incredibles", 2004.

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• I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

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  Life, Greatness, Want

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• I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

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  Heart, Stories, Corny

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• I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

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  Art, Mean, Entertainment

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• We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.

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  Real, Heart, Emotional

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• I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because...we are just getting started.

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  Mean, Dresses, Rehearsal

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• I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

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  Life, Leadership, Epcot

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