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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The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value when compared with that which we obtain from having proved the inconstancy of our own desires.
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Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.
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As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
