Maurice Sendak Quotes

You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.

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• We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Way
  • Shoes
  • Same

• I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Always
  • See
  • Luxury

• Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Desire
  • Movement
  • Western

• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Business
  • Dying

• I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Find
  • Fat
  • My Own

• It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • School
  • Team
  • Chess

• I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

  

  P. D. James
  • Believe
  • War
  • Political

• I don't want to be a pretty boy.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Boy

• At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Want
  • Situation

• Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Black
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • She
  • Business

• In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Best
  • Artist
  • Drama

• As long as people want to see me do this action and sci-fi stuff, it would be wrong of me to deny the fans what they want to see.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Know
  • Always
  • Sick

• There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Because
  • Female
  • Mozart

• I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • World
  • Good
  • Important

• Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Night
  • Lost
  • Sun

• There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

  

  Malcolm X
  • More
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • People
  • Different
  • Interesting

• Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Game
  • Comedy
  • Characters

• Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life
  • Death
  • Rising

• You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.

  

  Maurice Sendak