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"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
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"It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place."
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Personal Development
"What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't."
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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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"It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone."
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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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"I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks."
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"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
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"If you want to be happy, be."
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"I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go."
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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."
Family
"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."
Creativity
"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
"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
"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
Time
"Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published."
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