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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

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In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. Theres a cruelty to childhood, theres an anger. – Maurice Sendak

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Maurice Sendak
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Its self-effacing, its hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. – Jerry Leiber

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M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect. – Loretta Swit

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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor. – Dana Carvey

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As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis. – Priscilla Presley

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I had people in my life who didnt give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me. – Temple Grandin

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