Doreen Cronin Quotes
I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'
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I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
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I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.
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That got me to L.A. and reintroduced me to my future husband.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
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Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.
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I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'
