Maurice Sendak Quotes
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
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Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
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Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.
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I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
