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Maira Kalman Quotes

There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

Maira Kalman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1949

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Good Music I Am Happy Interesting

Back in my mid-20s I was told I'd never be able to have children as I wasn't having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn't.

Jill Scott

Future Children Me Start Back Said

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

John Cameron Mitchell

Forgiveness Myself Me Finding Mercy

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

Maya Angelou

Brother Sister Will See Clear Until

Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.

Andy Hertzfeld

Magic Year Apple Starting Existence

To get a connection to your characters, you have to put them in a situation that you can feel yourself.

Michael Connelly

Yourself Feel You Connection Get

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.

Steven Tyler

Change Service Think You Country Go

My father is black - was black. My mother is white.

Stromae

Father Mother Black White

In Broadway, we do love jazz hands.

Rosie Perez

Love Hands Jazz Broadway

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

Mira Sorvino

Love I Am Doing More Things Just

In the end, I'm really interested in people and what we do with our short time here on earth. I'm interested in the human soul.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Time Soul People End Short Earth

Nobody who knows me and loves me dearly would ever call me adaptable or flexible. I'm not.

Judith Viorst

Me Nobody Flexible Call Would Knows

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Don Shula

Good Football Luck Bad Bad Luck Lot