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Alissa Quart Quotes

I used to teach at the Columbia journalism school, and I would tell my students that every book has to have a sentence that motivates it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1972

Topics

School Book Journalism Teach Tell

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

Time New York Me Comfort Zone You

The fact of the matter is I have done so many parts.

Done Matter Fact Many Parts

I've always wanted to work in entertainment. My family moved to Orlando when I was 15 so I could make it.

Work Family Entertainment Always

Don't give advice unless you're asked.

Advice You Give Unless Asked

I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.

Sonia Sotomayor

People Think Doing You Important

I have never hurt anyone, and that pays back. I have always wanted good for everyone.

Good Hurt Back Never Always Wanted

You can't win any games in the Spanish league by giving only seventy or eighty per cent. You always have to step on the gas.

Step Win Giving You Seventy Games

I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.

Queen Face Australia Treasures Been

Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.

Uniform Always Michael Jordan Shorts

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

Song Kind Write Little Anything

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Good Health You Shape Pretty

The overwhelming majority of Coloradans don't want Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States or Colorado.

Colorado Want United Majority Bay

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