Maurice Sendak Quotes
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
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Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.
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Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
