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 don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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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 care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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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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It would be a dream come true to appear on Turner Classic Movies with Robert Osborne, who is one of my heroes.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
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To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
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I don't know how, where, and why the idea for 'Defending Your Life' began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don't come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, 'Why is it this way?'
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Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
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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.'
