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"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"The past is but the past of a beginning."
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"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."
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"The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end."
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"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
Family
"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
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"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
Beginning
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
Work
"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."
Creativity
"I have been drawing all my life."
Life
"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
Thought
"Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books."
Thought
"Each book first begins with a little idea."
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"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"
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