Alison Gopnik Quotes
As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.
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We celebrate the Bill Gateses of the world. We're not mad at Bill Gates.
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Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.
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I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.
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There's something fascinating about watching artists draw.
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As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.
