Maira Kalman Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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Home is where one starts from.
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I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.
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The challenge for me as a parent of two girls is to establish enough structure in the house so that things don't go haywire... but at the same time, as a dominant male figure in their life, let them know they can topple the king.
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I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.
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What we are oftentimes reminding people of is the fact that the history of police in the U.S. was that they were slave patrols. They were quite literally created in order to capture enslaved Africans.
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I've started collecting taxidermy: I've got a red squirrel, called Steve. I made sure he came with certificates so we know he wasn't just killed for stuffing.
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My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
