"Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design."

-- Anthony Browne

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“I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.”
“I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.”
“All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.”
“Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.”

Source : Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster
“I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.”
“God is and he has revealed himself fully in Jesus Christ.”
“My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.”

Source : Quoted in Robert J. Buckley, Sir Edward Elgar (1905)
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.”

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