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Maurice Sendak Quotes

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 10, 1928 - May 8, 2012

Topics

Childhood Anger Child Crazy Drive

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Fear Pain Violence Feelings Personal

It's near impossible to always be right when you're innovating. It's easy to get emotionally invested in it, but you need to monitor its impact like a hawk and react if you don't like what you see. And if/when you pull it back, you want to do that communication with transparency and humility.

Communication Humility Impossible You

That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!

Michael Connelly

Writing Easy Journalism Over Fiction

I don't wake up every day and think about which tournaments I won and which titles I hold. It's something I don't care about.

Day Wake Up Think Care Every Day Up

The really cool challenge of '24' was learning on camera how to be a dramatic actress. The biggest difficulty was the industry side of things. I was very lucky that I had Joel Surnow, one of the creators of '24,' in my corner. Early on, the Fox executives couldn't believe that I was on the show.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Learning Challenge Cool Believe Fox

In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.

Time Value Free You Information

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Jean Baudrillard

Language Innocence Long You Never

People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points, you can take any latitude and longitude anywhere in the world, and I'll tell you what is interesting now, 20 minutes from now, and 6 hours from now.

People World Saying Interesting Data

Expats are a self-selecting group of outgoing, confident people - if you're not those things, you probably don't choose this adventure - and the lifestyle is very conducive to making fast, close friends.

Adventure People Confident Choose

I work very hard in the gym. Sometimes, I come home very late, around 1 A.M., but still I go and work out at the gym. I don't ever stop.

Work Home Gym Late Stop Sometimes

When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.

Love Myself Together Words Poetry

I've just tried to be a responsible person and pay my bills. But whatever it is I do, I want to do the best I can.

Best I Can Person Want Responsible

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