Danielle Crittenden Quotes
So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind ourselves to the needs of our children and harden our hearts against them, we will continue to feel torn, dissatisfied, and exhausted…. The guilt we feel for neglecting our children is a byproduct of our love for them. It keeps us from straying too far from them, for too long. Their cry should be more compelling than the call from the office.
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.
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Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
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I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.
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I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.
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Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.
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So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind ourselves to the needs of our children and harden our hearts against them, we will continue to feel torn, dissatisfied, and exhausted…. The guilt we feel for neglecting our children is a byproduct of our love for them. It keeps us from straying too far from them, for too long. Their cry should be more compelling than the call from the office.
