Maurice Sendak Quotes
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.
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I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.
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In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.
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To those many millions of you unfamiliar with my work, I play a caddish British doctor in practice with Mindy Kaling on her excellent sitcom 'The Mindy Project.'
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
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I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
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I spend a lot of time on college campuses, a lot of time mentoring young women in all sectors of business, because I don't want them to spend as much time to get their voice as I did.
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Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.
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Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.
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I like the idea of, not shocking people, but just throwing people off. Doing something that makes people go, 'Whoa, whoa, she did that next? Wow, didn't think she was gonna do something like that next.'
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If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'
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You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.
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I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
