Walt Disney Quotes

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.

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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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If I'd understood back then that a guy could be in love with another one, it would have happened. But I didn't come to that realization for a few more years and then it was too late for Jimmy and me.
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We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.
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When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the strength of his thoughts and dreams as a whole, but only of that infinitesimal part which has been able to make its way through the narrow channel of language and the equally narrow channel of the reader's understanding.
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A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.