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Walt Disney: I've fought this battle from her side. Pat Powers, he wanted the mouse and I didn't have a bean back then. He was this big terrifying New York producer and I was just a kid from Missouri with a sketch of Mickey, but it would've killed me to give him up. Honest to God, killed me. That mouse, he's family.
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Walt Disney: You know, you've never been to Disneyland, that's the happiest place on earth.
P.L. Travers: I cannot begin to tell you how uninterested - no, positively sickened I am at the thought of visiting your dollar-printing machine.
Walt Disney: Well, for crying out loud! When does anybody get to go to Disneyland with Walt Disney himself?
P.L. Travers: Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the air.
[Disney hangs up angrily]
P.L. Travers: [offended] Hello? Hello? He hung up!
Richard Halverson
Extended Reading
