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" I cry a lot because I miss people. "
Maurice Sendak
Lot
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" Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. "
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" I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever. "
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" It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive. "
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" My work is not great, but it's respectable. "
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" Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong. "
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" Kids lead a very private life. "
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" Kids are so shrewd. "
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" As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that. "
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" Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. "
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" I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. "
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" I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could. "
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" You don't want to do something that's all terrifying. "
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" I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep. "
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" To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time. "
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" I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay? "
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" I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children. "
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" My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. "
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