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David Elkind Quotes

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 11, 1931

Topics

Childhood Teen Chance Choice Matter

My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother's womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me.

Mother God Relationship Together Me

Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.

Politics Me Short Conservative Idea

We just want to be sure that what we're creating is pushing the ball forward for women and diversity in media.

Jennifer Konner

Women Diversity Forward Media Want

Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.

Character Myself Strong Someone Know

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Robert E. Howard

Education Art Culture Me Writing

I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.

Life Family Great People Media Go

Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested.

Michelle Rodriguez

Woman Adventure Think Independent Up

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 live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.

Luke Macfarlane

Live Architecture Design Chair House

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

Joyce Carol Oates

Girl Alone Time Woods Farm Young

I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.

Lunch Phone Know Three Days Gone

I grew up reading 'Lord of the Rings' and comic books, so that kind of epic quality I like.

Quality Reading Kind Up Lord Rings

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