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==Inspiration for Mickey Mouse== {{multiple image |width=400px |direction=vertical |image1=Laugh-O-Gram Studio 2004.jpg |caption1=McConahay Building in 2004 |image2=Left side of the Thank You Walt Disney exterior wall.jpg |caption2=Left side of the Thank You Walt Disney mural }} Disney told interviewers that the inspiration to draw Mickey came from a tame mouse at his desk at Laugh-O-Gram Studio in [[Kansas City, Missouri]]. {{quote|They used to fight for little pieces of cheese in my waste-basket when I worked alone late at night. I lifted them out and kept them in wire cages on my desk. I grew particularly fond of one brown house mouse. He was a timid little guy. By tapping him on the nose with my pencil, I trained him to run inside a black circle I drew on my drawing board. When I left Kansas City to try my luck at Hollywood, I hated to leave him behind. So I carefully carried him to a backyard, making sure it was a nice neighborhood, and the tame little fellow scampered to freedom.<ref name="conv">{{Cite book |last=Jackson |first=Kathy Merlock |title=Walt Disney: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists Series) |date=November 30, 2005 |publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] |isbn=1-57806-713-8 |page=120}}</ref>}} In 1928 during a train trip to New York, he showed the drawing to his wife [[Lillian Disney|Lillian Marie Bounds]] and said he was going to call it "Mortimer Mouse". She replied that the name sounded "too pompous" and suggested [[Mickey Mouse]] instead.<ref name="conv" />
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