"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."
― Maurice Sendak
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- "I’m not afraid of death."
- "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."
- "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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- "I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved."― Catherine Deneuve
- "If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it."― Samuel Richardson