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Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

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Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

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That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

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My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

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I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

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You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

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While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

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When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

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What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

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What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: March 24th, 1911

Died: December 18th, 2006

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