"I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights."

-- Connie Chung

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“The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.”
“This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion animation with the greatest crew of animators, artists, and technicians I've ever been privileged to work with. I share this nomination with all of them and we all share our thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press.”

Source : "Neil Gaiman, Others React to Golden Globe Animation Noms" by Steve Fritz, www.newsarama.com. December 15, 2009.
“It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.”
“I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.”

Source : "The Philosophy of Education". Book by William Torrey Harris, 1889.
“The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.”
“I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.”
“It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.”

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