Maurice Sendak Quotes
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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I am not a fan of books.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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I write music every day.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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I've seen 'Absentia,' which was amazing. I loved 'Absentia.' I loved that for no money, he was able to make a movie about something that you never saw. You never saw the bad guys. That was amazing to me. You never saw what you were supposed to be afraid of; you just knew you were supposed to be afraid of it. It was a phenomenal movie.
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I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
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Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
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Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.
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I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
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As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.
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First I will make different color tests: I will study the dark – deep blue, deep violet, deep dirty green, etc. Often I see the colors before my eyes. Sometimes I imitate with my lips the deep sounds of the trumpet – then I see various deep mixtures which the word is uncapable od conceiving and which the palette can only feebly reproduce.
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He liked everything about the university except the students.
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The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
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You're smarter than TV. So what?
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I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn't. I started getting really excited about politics.
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A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye. For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.
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God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge, but still within His love and power.
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'And now,' cried Max, 'let the wild rumpus start!'
