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Alison Gopnik Quotes

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

Alison Gopnik

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Reading Doing You Down Say

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

Merry Clayton

Morning Baby Sister Singing Church

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Stephen Hawking

Passion Science Reason Romance Only

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

Robert Englund

Comedy Venice Film Italian Festival

My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums... And then at one point, the bookmobile started coming to town. That was really cool. I mean, that was when I read my first Raymond Carver story. I think that was probably 1969 or so. I must have been 13.

Tom Drury

Humor Cool Story Think Grey Mean

I'm from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective.

Ronny Chieng

Perspective Voice Face You See Hear

I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.

Rosanna Arquette

Water Beach Sweater Photographer Off

Every time I step out there in the Octagon, I aim to do Australia proud. And this isn't for popularity or a fan base; it has never been for that. It's just because I love my country, and I want to show the world what we're doing down here.

Robert Whittaker

Love Time Step World Proud Doing

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Mickey Mantle

Life Game You Know Playing Been

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Lord Byron

Beginning Necessity Sense Atonement

How could this world be so unlike the world that I believed I was living in? I can't describe it. Do I not want to describe it, or do I simply not possess the vocabulary?

Jonathan Safran Foer

World Want Living Vocabulary Simply

Losing control of your pick on stage sucks, so I scratch some deep X's into both sides of my pick with something sharp, like a dart.

Dimebag Darrell

Losing Control Deep Sides Stage

I haven't got the energy to write now.

Doris Lessing

Energy Now Write Got