Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman
Maira Kalmanis an American illustrator, writer, artist, and designer. Her work most widely held in WorldCat libraries is Fireboat: the heroic adventures of the John J. Harvey, a picture book she both wrote and illustrated. It won the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction in 2003...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.
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Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.
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if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
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My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.
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Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
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Go out and walk. That is the glory of life,
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We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non reductive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies. But we would still be left with Nietzsche's preposterous mustache which instills great anguish and skepticism in the brain, which leads (as it did in his case) to utter madness. I suggest we go to Paris instead.
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who never told me to do anything realistic and who never told me to stop daydreaming.