Bruce Feiler Quotes
The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.
Quotes to Explore
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Growing up, I heard a lot about strength. My dad - a Holocaust survivor - embodied it, though he would never say that about himself. Not only did he survive one of the most horrific events in history, but he never lost hope along the way, crediting acts of kindness with keeping him alive.
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... the state of a really big system does not at all have to have the symmetry of the laws which govern it; in fact, it usually has less symmetry.
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I think with 'Modern Family,' you'll struggle to find anything better. It's brilliantly, brilliantly written.
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The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.
