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Steven Pinker Quotes

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: September 18, 1954

Topics

Serious Never Atheism Conversion Jew

The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you do in a straight scene. It's much harder.

Work Comedy You Connection More Far

Show business got really tainted for me.

Business Me Show Business Got Show

Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-on-demand print run of a dozen or so copies, shows publishers and editors a completed piece of work and that you can follow through on a project.

Work Me You Run Follow Project

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

People Writing Think Hard Air Out

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

Positive Daughter Sister Feel I Can

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

Out Film Every Ever Plays Films

I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet.

Me Feet Enough Need Always Alabama

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.

Christopher Lambert

Attitude Great Fun Done Way Fans

In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

New York City Remember Buildings New

The way 'Lux' was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.

Together White Way Two Out Piano

Well, my life is so centered around the people I care about, my animals, and my work.

Life Work People Care My Life Well

The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.

Funny Music Me Better Church You

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