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" Everybody involved in Pixar, I've not met one person who's not incredibly creative and nice and lovely and know what they're doing. "
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" To be in a Pixar movie is just great to begin with, and it has afforded me the opportunity to do a different medium because I have never done voice-over before. And I love it. "
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" I used to watch, on television on Sunday nights, they had the Disney hour then and the castle coming up and 'When you wish upon a star... ' That was my very first Disney memory. "
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