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Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

~Anna Quindlen

Topics: Around Dough Ideas Like Made Pizza Tossed

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I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

~Anna Quindlen

Topics: Along Bad Beach Blank Change Could Crossed Darkness Endlessly Life Me Miles Mind My Life Never Night Out Person Read Searching Someone Step Verse Walked Who Wonderful Would Writing

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Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

~Anna Quindlen

Topics: Against Free Free Speech Given Ignorant Instead Must Often Reasons Rein Several Speaker Speech Suppressed Why Works

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The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

~Anna Quindlen

Topics: After Attending Brains Built Court Culture Even Future Get High High School Kids Know Listening Messages Most Never People Prom Reunion School Schools Talking Tell You

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The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.

~Anna Quindlen

Topics: Changed Corporations Did Doors Equal Equal Opportunity Evolved Forward Institutions Last Law Many Minds Moved Opened Opportunities Opportunity Problem Revolution Years

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There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

~Anna Quindlen

Topics: About Emergency Emergency Room Form Great Kin Next Romance Room Settled Something Soothing Special Too Turning

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Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

~Anna Quindlen

Topics: After Beginning Came Child Conventional Cubism Did Down Had He In The Beginning Like Little Pat Picasso Raising Rules Things Very Work

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A finished person is a boring person.

~Anna Quindlen

Topics: Boring Finished Person

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Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

~Anna Quindlen

Topics: About Beginnings Endings Going Life Middle Much Through

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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

~Anna Quindlen

Topics: Amazing Becoming Beginning Being Giving Giving Up Hard Perfect Really Thing Up Work Yourself

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: July 8th, 1953

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