Maurice Sendak Quotes
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Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.
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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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You have to fight against all the things that will keep you out of writing, because life doesn't go with writing. You will always have something more important to do: you will have to take your children to school, you will have to cook something, you have to meet friends. But you have to fight if you want to write.
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I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of, 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.
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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
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Too many cooks spoil the broth...
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I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am.
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There must be more to life than having everything.
