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- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think like I was born in the country where everybody ate apples. Then I ended up in the country where everybody eats bananas. So now, I eat bananas so long, I'm just remembering the apples.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ursula Nordstrom was famous for finding artists in unlikely places. Maurice Sendak was a window designer, and she just came across one of his windows. Everyone was looking to find a talent.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a visual person, so it always starts with a picture, and then I get obsessed with the idea, sometimes too much. I have these blank books in which I take notes, and I add postcards and other physical items.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about 12 or 13, my father gave me 'The Little Prince.' He was making sure that I knew it was a special book. I'd seen the name of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, but to me it seemed a very French name, and I was not excited about him as a person.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I would use anything from 'The Little Prince,' even some little quote, it's all copyrighted in France. Like Walt Disney in this country, it's a national treasure.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am afraid that people will think I re-illustrated 'The Little Prince,' when really, it was more a tribute to him as a dedicated pilot and a man who believed in the goodness of people.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have little children, you want to tell them about joy and happiness and hope. And then comes the time you want to tell them there are tough moments. I admire people who can do that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometimes don't know what to do with my books because they say, 'Is it a children's book, and what age group?'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father documented on film for the last time what Tibet looked like before the world got there.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do you visualize something you've never seen and just imagined, through someone you love very much?
- Nov 07, 2020