Alissa Quart Quotes

'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new brown Stride Rite Mary Janes with little purple and silver flowers when the old shoes were pinching the toes.

Alissa Quart

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I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.

Jess Glynne

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This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

Jesse Helms

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Some of those early roles were unactable. Even Laurence Olivier couldn't have done anything with them. The dialog ran to cardboard passages such as, 'I love you. You can rely on me, darling. I'll wait.' It was all I could do to keep from adding, 'With egg on my face.'

John Gavin

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I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

Jeff Bridges

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It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.

Merce Cunningham

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No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

Amy Tan

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We want to do this methodically, smart, starting with border security then looking at immigration reform measures.

Michael McCaul

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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.

Mitski

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And anyway, modeling wasn't for me. I'm too short. I've got a big butt. It wasn't going to happen.

Minka Kelly

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I've never gone to comedy clubs.

Don Rickles

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A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.

Coretta Scott King

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I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.

Brandy Norwood

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