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The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends or begins. You just have to bluff and move forward.

Dan Scanlon

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Dan Scanlon
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 21
Actor
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Michigan
United States
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