Alissa Quart Quotes

I saw my gender - and myself - as something of a construct. Like anyone who read one too many women studies' books in the 1990s, I aspired to both 'do' and undo my sex.

Alissa Quart

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I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

Jim Carrey

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I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot about yourself if it's the right teacher. You're putting yourself up there in front of people, and it takes a lot of the intimidation of everyday away.

Joelle Carter

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People have always called me Schneider Monkey just because of my energy and mass consumption of bananas. Plus, I just love monkeys, so I thought, 'Well, I love monkeys, I love my fans, why not put the two together?'

Max Schneider

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There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them.

John Lithgow

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At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.

Matt Taibbi

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For a married woman to flirt is a sin.

Anna Held

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It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is.

Steve Burns

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I love people who have goals. Somebody who's passionate about life and does their own thing.

Amanda Bynes

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I love Cillian Murphy's character in 'Peaky Blinders' and Tom Hardy's in 'Taboo' - theses are characters that, as audience members, we follow along with and root for. But our own morality is tested throughout that journey, because these characters ride a thin line between morality and amorality.

Stana Katic

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I would like to learn so many things: I'd like to take tennis classes, I'd like continuing vocal lessons, and I'd definitely like taking more ice skating and more tap.

Sofia Vassilieva

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My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

Ron Moody

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I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

Jason Calacanis

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