Alissa Quart Quotes

There's a motherhood penalty because we've been long taught things that are stigmatized about motherhood. As workers, we don't want to talk about our kids at work. We're afraid to, or that when we leave at 5:30 to relieve the sitter we're somehow going to be diminished.

Alissa Quart

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WorkMotherhoodLongWantTalk

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

Jodi Picoult

YourselfMeBelieveThinkYouFind

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

John Frusciante

FeelOutComeJustLikeSongs

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

Andre Rieu

FamilyMotherMeBlackSheepNever

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

John le Carre

FictionWouldAuthenticRatherKnows

The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you're not clashing with the third being depicted one way or the other.

Robert Palmer

FreeYouBluesWayRhythmMove

When I realized that my big dream was going to come true - 'Night Shift' was a success, 'Splash' was a success, I got the job to do 'Cocoon' - suddenly, I was underway. And I knew my name was rising up the lists. I was going to have a career. I was going to be able to direct movies until I screwed it up.

Ron Howard

SuccessJobNightNameCareerDream

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Mary Pickford

I AmLaughterPeopleTheatreLaugh

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Minna Antrim

ReligionHypocriteDifferenceLies

That's what helped me be successful is staying as calm as possible.

Jared Goff

MeCalmPossibleSuccessfulStaying

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

Jonas Mekas

LifeBeautyWalkAngryPoetryYou

I'm obviously not a politician, nor do I have the desire to be one, but I'm a conscious citizen.

Chauncey Billups

DesireCitizenPoliticianConscious

I know I wore number 70 in high school, and then when I got to Virginia Tech, I decided to go with the No. 78, and from that point, I just fell in love with and I wanted to make that number special.

Bruce Smith

LoveSchoolHigh SchoolGoKnowGot

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