"Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical."

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Source : "We All Start Out As Scientists, But Some of Us Forget" by Chris Mooney, Indre Viskontas, www.motherjones.com. November 8, 2013.

Alison Gopnik

#Baby Quotes #Children Quotes #Parent Quotes

“I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.”

Source : "When I Was 17: Katie Leclerc". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 26, 2012.
“I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.”

Source : Anne Stuart (2012). “The Devil's Waltz”, p.347, Harlequin
“It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being”

Source : Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.”
“I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.”
“I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.”
“Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.”
“Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.”

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