Alison Gopnik Quotes

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

Alison Gopnik

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ChildrenInterestingAttentionBad

This perception that I'm negative toward Peyton and I don't appreciate the things he did is so far from the truth.

Jim Irsay

TruthPerceptionNegativeAppreciate

My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

John Constable

NatureArtNobodyFinishImitation

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

Robert K. Greenleaf

SayingToo MuchMuchCommunicateToo

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Ann Landers

MarriageSunsetHappyHappy Marriage

I never wanted to play a character that hated herself. I wanted people to know that those aren't the only roles for people like me, normal girls.

Amber Riley

CharacterPeopleMePlayKnowNever

But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.

Michael Tilson Thomas

FutureMusicExperienceYourselfYou

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Lord Byron

FriendFriendsYouNeverAnything

Anybody that's a Dolphins fan feels they're headed in the right direction.

Don Shula

DirectionRightDolphinsFanAnybody

Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.

Johnny Vegas

CharacterExperienceStepThought

It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.

Cheryl Hayashi

LifeMeRestMy LifeSharingWhy

I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.

Bobbie Ann Mason

LifeMeGrowing UpFarmGoDesire

All I can really tell you about my father is that he did odd things like put tin foil on a bottle of beer after having a few sips, then put it in the refrigerator to perhaps have on another night.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

FatherBeerNightYouI CanTell

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