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Maurice Sendak Quotes

People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

New York People Disappointment Voice

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

Wife Sunday Young Being Piece About

The collision of mobile and social platforms and the need to build these companies from the ground up - whether it's a game, a healthcare application, an education application - building these from the ground up is what allows entrepreneurial activity to be unleashed.

Education Building Game Healthcare

Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.

Live Parents World Think Play Said

The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective.

Growth Government Creating Prosperity

I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.

Family Children Wife Young First

When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.

Training School High School Think

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

Thought Okay Everything Just Made

I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp.

Simplicity Look Sitting Room Lamp

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Age Memory Believe Fast I Can True

Liberals are good at catchphrases, but there's no substance behind them.

Good Behind Substance Liberals Them

I was really good at Latin at school, and because I was good at it, I got more interested and got better at it.

Good School Better More Got Because

I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week.

Live Night Saturday Week Nothing

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