Maurice Sendak Quotes
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R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will come.
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I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.
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A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it's about my family, it's about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
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Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. … They've got a big target on there, ATF. Don't shoot at that, because they've got a vest on underneath that. Head shots, head shots.... Kill the sons of bitches.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Justice, n. A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
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Logic and mathematics seem to be the only domains where self-evidence manages to rise above triviality; and this it does, in those domains, by a linking of self-evidence on to self-evidence in the chain reaction known as proof.
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Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend. We were the ones that worked with Saddam Hussein. The United States worked with bin Laden.
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I think that's what makes a great show: when the performers onstage aren't putting on a show, they're legitimately just having a freaking awesome time.
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The Lionsgate deal came at an opportune time. It allows us to get our projects financed and create long-form content without needing to be reliant on brand deals or crowdsourcing for external financing.
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You have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you're gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who goes to the theater. In Vegas, you have people who only see one theater show a year, and it's in Vegas.
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You have to invest. You can't sit back.
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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
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The sense of discovery only comes when I'm making discoveries alongside the reader. It feels crucial for me to not know too much about how things will turn out. So I try to develop strong characters with recognizable desires and put them together with other characters and see what happens.
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I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role.
