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"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
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"With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs."
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"I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."
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"It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period."
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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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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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"What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted."
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"I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done."
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"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
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"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."
Parenting
"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
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"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."
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"Each book first begins with a little idea."
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"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"
Childhood
"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
Want
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
Work
"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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"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."
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"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
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