Stephanie Coontz Quotes

Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and more possibilities for independence.

Stephanie Coontz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 31, 1944

Topics

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I love roles where it's not about being perfect or being beautiful, where there is more of an interest in what's going on inside the character.

Jeryl Prescott

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This is just another man, another fight, another payday.

Joe Frazier

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What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

Angus T. Jones

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My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for instance.

Angus Deaton

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If you're a film studio, you're making a movie for a foreign market. You're pursuing ideas that travel well. It changes the movies we see and how movies are made.

Anita Elberse

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One restaurant I visit without fail, whenever I'm in the Bay Area, is the Boulevard at 1 Mission Street, a few strides from the waterfront. It has excellent food and wine very much in the modern California style, but I go there less for any one dish than for the pleasure of dining with the restaurant's chefs.

Amor Towles

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Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

Stellan Skarsgard

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I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

Sofia Vergara

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When I phoned up and said, 'Mum, I'm doing a 52-date national tour with Eddie Izzard,' she said 'That's nice, dear. How are you?'

Dominic Holland

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I want to be competitive; I want to run all over - I want to win.

Diego Costa

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When I was a kid, my mother used to say, 'You always want to be different.' I couldn't work out what she meant. I was just trying to be myself.

Cornelia Parker

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I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

Chris Ware

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