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Marc Davis

"Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62."

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Donna Grant

"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

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Donna Grant

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

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Donna Grant

"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

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Donna Grant

"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."

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Donna Grant

"Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62."

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Donna Grant

"We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning."

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Donna Grant

"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."

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Donna Grant

"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."

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Donna Grant

"I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides."

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Donna Grant

"When the game is over it is really just beginning."

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Marc Davis
"Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62."

Beginning

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Marc Davis
"The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer."

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Marc Davis
"Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood."

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Marc Davis
"It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals."

Creativity

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Marc Davis
"His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today."

Career

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Marc Davis
"I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!"

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Marc Davis
"There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object."

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Marc Davis
"Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn't have that many people who could draw humans."

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Marc Davis
"Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience."

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Marc Davis
"I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on."

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