Maurice Sendak Quotes
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
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To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to actually do it, I just went for it. I just dove in and have really learned a lot about putting a scent together. It's kind of exciting.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.
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My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.
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I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
