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I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

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Andrew Stanton
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: December 3
Actor
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Voice Actor
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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