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The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

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Andrew Stanton
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: December 3
Actor
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Film Producer
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Rockport
Massachusetts
Andrew Christopher Stanton Jr.
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I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.
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