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" I love bringing the inanimate object to life. "
John Lasseter
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" Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly. "
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" I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining. "
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