Walt Disney Quotes
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I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.
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Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.
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Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.
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I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.
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Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.
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No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.
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We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.
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The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it... to see whether there is any dead phase... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature.
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Nothing is impossible.
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One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.
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In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.
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Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.
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I'm doing this because I want to do it better.
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If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.
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Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.
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The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.
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Fantasy and reality often overlap.
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You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.
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I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.
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The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It's then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.
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Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.
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Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.
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I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it.