Maurice Sendak Quotes
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
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I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.
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I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.
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There is no police brutality.
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Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.
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I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.
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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
