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Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms.

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Charles Busch

I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile. " The second one was,they give you general areas to work in. They said, "Set 'My Fair Lady' in ancient Egypt. "I came up with this idea about an Egyptian princess, and I gave her, as a sidekick, a little scarab. I had a telephone meeting with the executive "handling" me, and he said, "I looked over the notes. Very cute. But lose the beetle. Beetles don't talk. " Well, how do you answer that? I said, "Excuse me just a moment, I've got a teacup calling me on the other line. "

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I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages of notes. . . . I was so prepared that the script seemed inevitable. It was almost all there. I could almost collate it from my notes. The story line, the rather tenuous plot we have, seemed to work out itself. It was a very helpful way to write, and it wasn't so scary. I wasn't starting with a completely blank page.

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There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"

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I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based on every little fantasy I have.

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I was very briefly under contract to Disney Animation, to develop ideas for animated features. They don't like you to use the word "cartoon" around there.

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I've always wanted to do something where I aged a lot, went from young girl to dowager.

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