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Quote by Maurice Sendak
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. – Maurice Sendak

Other quotes by Maurice Sendak

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I dont know. I dont know. Ive convinced myself – I hope Im right – that children despair of you if you dont tell them the truth. – Maurice Sendak

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Hope
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Maurice Sendak
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To get a childs trust – you may know or not – is a very hard thing to do. Theyre so used to not believing adults – because adults tell tales and lies all the time. – Maurice Sendak

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Trust
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Other Quotes from
Humor
category

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between. – Roger Moore

Category:
Humor

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. – Robert Collier

Category:
Humor

Lesbian humor isnt trying to sell anything, it doesnt have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act if it werent, more women would do it. – Kate Clinton

Category:
Humor

Many a true word is spoken in jest. – English Proverb

Category:
Humor

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best

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. – Euripides

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best

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if its supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what youre doing and make the action work for that and for the character. – David R. Ellis

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alone

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. – Dorothy L. Sayers

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Truth