Maurice Sendak Quotes
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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
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Nature's God really descends from an ancient Greek tradition that was passed along to the early modern philosophers. And these were quite radical thinkers who were really challenging the ways of thinking of their time and the established religion.
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My parents were very indiscrete.
