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If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about, I'm for that. But if you're using technology to silence the conversations with the people around you, then you have to create sacred spaces in your home, the kitchen, the dining room, the car.

Judy Woodruff

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Judy Woodruff
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 20
Journalist
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Judy Carline Woodruff
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