Walt Disney's Influenced My Life

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“If you can dream it, you can do it,” has always been a life motto of mine not just because of its meaning but instead the person who said it.. Throughout my life, Walt Disney had inspired and influenced me and my life in many ways. He and the Walt Disney Company have showed me the magic in life but also the struggle and hardships of reality. Walt Disney has inspired and taught me at a very young age to express my emotions through the arts and other creative outlets and that the magic of his creations were possible because of hard work and determination.

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