Maurice Sendak Quotes
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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I find the business world hard.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
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The rise of democracy was driven by the citizens' desire to escape from the paternalistic and arbitrary charity of those with money. They accomplished this by replacing charity with a fair, balanced, arm's-length system of public obligation. The principle tool of that obligation was taxation.
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We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
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They wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned.
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The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.
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I don't need faith.
