"I was always fascinated with the idea that an imaginary friend was the perfect friend that a child created, and I wanted to play with the idea of a role reversal where the imaginary friend is waiting to find that perfect someone but has doubts about whether that day would ever come."

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Source : "Helping Students Make Friends". Interview with Brian Smith, www.scholastic.com. August 25, 2014.

Dan Santat

#Children Quotes #Play Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I'm not particularly fond of the Hamptons.”

Source : Interview with Rebecca Sinn, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.
“Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!”
“A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.”
“Long exercised in woes.”
“Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.”
“Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.”
“The more we give away, the more is given to us.”
“If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!”

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