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Alison Gopnik Quotes

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 16, 1955

Topics

Respect Want Peers Social Teenagers

I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.

Moving Now More Directing Definitely

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

Good End Confident Independent Need

You know, I just tend to do the scene that I'm given, really. If it really needs it, then I'll go to them and ask 'What's she talking about? What's she referring to?' But often they don't know, or they do know and they're not going to tell me, so I've learned just to work with what I'm given.

Work Me Talking You Go Know

Nobody is born a dancer.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Born Nobody Dancer

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

Suicide You Way Commit Suggest

If Trump is president, I think that his administration will do real structural damage that will take years or decades for us to undo.

Think Will President Real Years Us

I hate exercise.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

Marianne Williamson

Light Men Peace Woman World Enough

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Lionel Trilling

Art Culture Environmental Perception

If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no matter how terrible you think that first draft is. Then let it cool off. In other words, don't look at it for a while. Then you can rewrite it.

Kimberly Willis Holt

Words Cool Book Story Think Look

There are times when I think, 'I'm going to get this part. I know I am. I'm going to get this.' And then I don't, and I'm wondering, 'What happened? I went back five times!'

Erika Christensen

I Am Think Back Know Going Get

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Ernest Hemingway

Death End Enough You Keep Far

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