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"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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"I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."
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"It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period."
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"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."
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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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"What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted."
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"I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done."
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"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
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"In my beginning is my end."
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"Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience."
Experience
"What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation."
Movies
"Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it."
Time
"Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood."
Car
"My father was something of a rainbow-chaser."
Family
"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."
Opportunity
"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."
People
"I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!"
Work
"At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil."
Business
"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."
Work
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