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Maurice Sendak Quotes

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Happy Parents Be Happy Straight

You can't sit there and worry about everything.

Michael Bloomberg

Worry You Everything Sit About

I do so many roles, I can't be typecast.

Many Roles Typecast

Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.

Fight People Small Get Only Percent

You know, if you meet someone for the first time, they're not going to bite you.

Time Someone You Know Meet First

We all want our genetic information. Why would you not want genetic information?

People Information Want Why Everyone

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

Art World Long Games Movement Fine

So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a kind of clarity. It is that discovery of the past in the present on which a writer depends again and again as if our lost childhoods, like the surprising cyclamen plant, are forever opening new blossoms.

Time Beginning Past Memory World

There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.

Stars Music World Enough Rock

Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals.

Blame Bible Hide Myths Victims

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.

Martin Chemnitz

Love Diligence True Praise Consensus

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

Best World Think Know Call Shots

I roller skated when I was younger, but when you're on a track that's slanted and you're with other people all skating in a pack, it's a whole different sport.

People You Skating Whole Different

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