Maurice Sendak Quotes
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
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The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
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Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
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People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.
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Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.
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The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?
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My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.
