Maurice Sendak Quotes
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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It's a myth that you have to wash your hair all the time.
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Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.
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When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.
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Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.
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Rev. Pat Robertson says that if more states legalize gay marriage, God will destroy America. He did say that afterwards, gays will come in and do a beautiful renovation.
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I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
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The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.
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Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.
