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All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.

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Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

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I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions.

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All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.

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I don't believe there's a challenge anywhere in the world that's more important to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities. But where do we begin — how do we start answering this great challenge? Well, we're convinced we must start answering the public need. And the need is not just for curing the old ills of old cities. We think the need is for starting from scratch on virgin land and building a special kind of new community that will always be in a state of becoming. It will never cease to be a living blueprint of the future, where people actually live a life they can't find anywhere else in the world.

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All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. We didn't burden him with any social symbolism, we made him no mouthpiece for frustrations or harsh satire. Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.

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It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

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Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.

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Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.

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