As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It’s become a family ritual.
BEVERLY SILLSThe Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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I’ve always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
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I know that anybody who does all this and doesn’t have to, everything thinks she’s very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can’t it be that simple?
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The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
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I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn’t matter.
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I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.
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There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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Don’t get me started on critics.
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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There is something in me-I just can’t stand to admit defeat.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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I think it is! I don’t feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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