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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
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I stress character, character, character.
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Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.
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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 have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.
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Kids lead a very private life.
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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.
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Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.
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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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