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I'm not obsessed with angels but I do adore angels.
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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.
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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
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I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal.
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I'm a lucky buck.
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My therapies went on forever.
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man.
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Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
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There must be more to life than having everything.
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Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.
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You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
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I cry a lot because I miss people.
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I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
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When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
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I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
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I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?
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I'm totally crazy, I know that.
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I was miserable as a kid.
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One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you’ve worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is the splendid grace. And I think that is what’s happening to me.
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It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.
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I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.
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I stress character, character, character.
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