Anthony Lane Quotes
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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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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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.
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I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don't have any children, I do relate better to them than adults.
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In the real world, children love me.
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I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when you take parents who are forcing their children to do anything, I don't think it's healthy.
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People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.
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Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.
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The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.
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The atheist believes a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
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I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.
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We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
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But I tell you - and mark my words - you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current.
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Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.
