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" I didn't have much confidence in myself... never. "
Maurice Sendak
Confidence
Much
Myself
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" 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. "
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" I refuse to lie to children. "
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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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" I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent. "
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" If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up. "
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" There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. "
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" I cry a lot because I miss people. "
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Miss
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" I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! "
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" I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. "
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" I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think. "
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" I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young. "
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" I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother. "
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" I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. "
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" The distinctions of fine art bore me to death. "
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Me
Fine Art
" There's so much more to a book than just the reading. "
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Reading
Than
Much
" 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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Painful
Anxiety
" My work is not great, but it's respectable. "
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