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Maurice Sendak Quotes

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

Maurice Sendak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Small Remember Want Boy Mean See

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.

Jesmyn Ward

World Language Generation Understand

I do know that people treat me different with blonde hair than they do with red hair.

Jessica Chastain

Red People Me Hair Treat Blonde

In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.

Ann Leckie

Future Gender Stereotypes Now Here

Our philosophy here, guys, is we're going to work as long as we have to to get the work done. I'm not one that wants the coaches to compete to see who can get in the earliest, who stays the latest, who passes themselves on the way into work in the morning.

Jeff Fisher

Work Morning Philosophy Long Done

I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress.

John Podesta

Faith New York People Think Judge

Fifty-one million likes doesn't mean we're going to sell 51m albums or concert tickets.

Troy Carter

Mean Concert Going Sell Million

I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.

Tracy Chapman

Myself Me Gun Someone Run Race

Nothing ruins the lines of a suit or blazer and makes you look more like a doofus than when your pockets are crammed with stuff - a wallet, a cell phone, keys, a calculator, a calendar, pens, etc.

Roger Stone

Cell Phone You Look Phone Calendar

I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain. I've watched 'Top Chef' and watched interviews with chefs on 'Charlie Rose'... I thought they're really intriguing characters, and they really encapsulate that tension between vision and commerce, art and commerce.

Jon Favreau

Vision Art Rose Chef World Thought

U.S. is a merit-based society... There is no glass ceiling if you have good performance track record and leadership skills.

Dinesh Paliwal

Leadership Good Performance Society

People used to ask me, 'What else do you want to do?' For me, the answer was, 'Nothing.' I loved basketball. It's all I wanted.

Chris Bosh

People Me Basketball Loved You Want

Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

William Joyce

Truth Day Me Sister Phone She