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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It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.
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The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.
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He's the kind of guy who will stab you in the back right to your face.
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It's a torturous time when you learn almost everything you really have to know about survival. The important thing to remember when you are living through it, however, is that you have absolutely no idea quite how smart and strong and beautiful the pain will make you. So go forth and suffer...you'll rule the world.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.