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Christopher Lasch Quotes

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

Christopher Lasch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: June 1, 1932 - February 14, 1994

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Child Place News New Same Toy

When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.

Time Together Child Writing Unhappy

I was born in 1937, in Yakima, Washington, the oldest child of Robert Emerson Lucas and Jane Templeton Lucas. My sister Jenepher was born in 1939 and my brother Peter in 1940. My parents had moved to Yakima from Seattle to open a small restaurant, The Lucas Ice Creamery.

Robert Lucas, Jr.

Child Brother Parents Sister Small

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

Nature Man Direction Think Profound

I remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me.

Girl School Me High School Remember

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.

Me Events Watching Open Playing CNN

Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon. She entranced Emperor Li Yu by dancing on her toes inside a six-foot golden lotus festooned with ribbons and precious stones.

Moon Feet New Said Golden She

To find a new star in the sky is pretty hard.

Robbie Robertson

Sky Find New Hard Pretty Star

It's all so surreal, and I'm living my dream. And you know, principal or not, I'm getting to dance all the roles that I've dreamed of doing.

Dance Doing You Dream Know Living

I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.

Love Art Movies Horror Horror Movies

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

Dennis Eckersley

Life Best Me My Life Magic Up

The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.

Theatre Exercise You Place Strange

Every solution breeds new problems.

Problems Solution New Breeds Every

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