"When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books."

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Source : Source: www.hbook.com

Mary GrandPre

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Artist Quotes

“Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.”
“I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.”
“But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years.”
“One night I dreamed I was running. When I woke up I forgot I had a limp, so I walked totally normal until I remembered, 'oh, yeah, I have a limp'. Then I immediately stumbled. That showed me that if you have control over your mind, you can do anything.”
“I love my beauty. It's not my fault.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 18, 2015
“If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we donâ€™t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isnâ€™t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having themâ€¦ We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesnâ€™t remind us that we did badly â€” it reminds us that we know we can do better.”

Source : "33% of Adolescents Regret Their Tattoos, Study Finds" by Derek Beres, bigthink.com. April 11, 2017.
“Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.”

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