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We Felt That The Public, And Especially The Children, Like Animals That Are Cute And Little. I Think We Are Rather Indebted To Charlie Chaplin For The Idea. We Wanted Something Appealing, And We Thought Of A Tiny Bit Of A Mouse That Would Have Something Of The Wistfulness Of Chaplin - A Little Fellow Trying To Do The Best He Could.

-Walt Disney

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We Felt That The Public, And Especially The Children, Like Animals That Are Cute And Little. I Think We Are Rather Indebted To Charlie Chaplin For The Idea. We Wanted Something Appealing, And We Thought Of A Tiny Bit Of A Mouse That Would Have Something Of The Wistfulness Of Chaplin - A Little Fellow Trying To Do The Best He Could.

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