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I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'

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People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.

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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

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You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too.

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My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

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To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

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That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: June 10th, 1928

Died: May 8th, 2012

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