Maurice Sendak Quotes
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Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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For cubic U I didn't know how it all got started at all.
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I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
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Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds.
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The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.
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Since I got my new liver, some of my tastes have changed. There are certain things I don't like anymore. I loved Indian food before but not now.
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People play with pain all the time.
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You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
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He detested them for forcing helplessness upon him.
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It wasn't money or love that I was looking for. I had a heightened sense of awareness, was set in my ways, impractical and a visionary to boot. My mind was strong like a trap and I didn't need any guarantee of validity.
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His capital is continually going from him in one shape, and returning to him in another, and it is only by means of such circulation, or successive exchanges, that it can yield him any profit. Such capitals, therefore, may very properly be called circulating capitals.
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I can smell burning flesh … and I hope to God it's human.
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I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.
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Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.
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People were making fun of redheads before I came along.
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Knowing who we are helps us plan for who we want to be and where we want to go.
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The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Building a business doesn't mean getting venture capital funding. It means finding customers and making money.
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I was miserable as a kid.
