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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What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?
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You learn over years of expeditions that having faith, and putting one foot in front of the other, you do end up pulling off climbs that seem completely impossible. There's a certain beauty to that. It has an allure.
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If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you.
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At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.
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An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.
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I don't need faith.
