Maurice Sendak Quotes

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

Maurice Sendak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

Jim Harrison

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Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don't fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that's at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.

Angela Duckworth

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Everyone in life has their challenges, mine have not been financial.

Ann Romney

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I see myself as a professional feeler.

Mia Goth

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Oh yes, things get me mad. But the thing is, I get mad, and then I turn around and I forget.

Sofia Vergara

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'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

Mithun Chakraborty

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I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.

Josh Brolin

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Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it's earnestness. I am earnest, too.

Jonathan Krisel

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I'm not fussy about my food.

Jonathan Franzen

FoodAboutFussy

Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.

Jonathan Jackson

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I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

August Wilson

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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

William Hazlitt

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