Walt Disney Quotes
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Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.
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Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.
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We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.
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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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Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.
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Ideas come from curiosity.
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I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
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Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world
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Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.
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I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
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The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.
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Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.
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No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives.
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.
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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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Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.
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People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working.
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She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.
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All of our dreams can come true...
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A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.
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The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.
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A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.
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I never intended to make art.