"Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it."
-Maurice Sendak
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"I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.“
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"To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time."
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"What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is."
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"I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child."
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"There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books."
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"I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out."
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