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Alissa Quart Quotes

I think cool originates with the jazz culture in the '40s. There was probably cool before that, but that's when people started talking about cool - Miles Davis and Charlie Parker and a bunch of other early, cool jazz folk.

Alissa Quart

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1972

Topics

Culture People Cool Think Talking

There are a lot of Washingtons that have played football. I could just blend in more and carve out my own name quietly.

John David Washington

Football Name My Own More Out Own

We will, as Americans, inhale another culture on a fork before we try their music or their art or even, God forbid, hang out with the actual people.

Andrew Zimmern

Music God Art Culture People Try

The irony of the media and people in big cities is that they're charged with defining the entire culture, when in reality they don't even live in that culture. They live in such a rarified, tiny world.

Meghan Daum

Live Culture People World Reality

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

Maureen O'Hara

Age Little Twice Turned Until

I love sports, and I love playing sports.

Stephen J. Dubner

Love Sports Playing I Love

I have a pretty active presence on social networking sites, and every day there are messages from so many young girls telling me that they are happy B-Town has curvy women like me. I feel you should be happy the way you are. Of course, fitness is important, but not to the extent of obsession!

Sonakshi Sinha

Women Fitness Day Happy Me Be Happy

Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.

Sissy Spacek

Long You Acting Film Get Scene

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Toni Morrison

Community Alone Children Child You

But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.

Robert Foster Bennett

Good Father Experience Politics Me

I worked at CBS in the late '90s, and I remember sitting in meetings with both advertisers and digerati, and everyone was saying, 'Network TV is dead.'

Ross Levinsohn

Saying Meetings Remember Late Dead

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Mignon McLaughlin

Young Pretty Full About Often

I never know what I want, but always know what I don't want.

Louise Wilson

Know Want Never Always