Maurice Sendak Quotes
I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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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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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.
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I've been to Gettysburg probably more than half a dozen times.
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Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing.
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Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.
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I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.
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Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.
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I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
