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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My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
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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've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.
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You know that you're going to invest so much of your time on a movie when you direct it that it's something that just really has to jump out at you and pull at your heart, and nothing has.
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I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the people who are writing the legislation, because there are plenty of ulterior motives out there.
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Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
