Maurice Sendak Quotes
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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I want to love life.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.
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Bring your whole self to work because, that way, you can bring full ideas and the wholeness of your unique abilities.
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The stage is bigger than life. There you are projecting to an audience. In television, you're drawing the camera in to you. And with TV, there isn't that immediate feedback from an audience. You do hours and hours of taping and never get that response.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.
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There must be more to life than having everything.
