Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes
Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
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I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
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Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.
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I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
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I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the feelings that are in the original are there, much more than the details, if they are right or wrong.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
