Maurice Sendak Quotes
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.
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If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
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I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
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I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.
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Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.
