Michael Gurian Quotes
As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...
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Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
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When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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The challenges are gonna go, and your children are gonna grow, so try to enjoy this moment, and try to look at what's good, and be grateful for what you have because you will see better days.
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The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.
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My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.
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I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn't put it out in the world!
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The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.
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As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...
