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Quvenzhane Wallis Quotes

I loved experiencing city life in New York.

Quvenzhane Wallis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: August 28, 2003

Topics

Life New York City Loved New York

I think that's what's so great about 'Jessica James' is you get to sit back and take a moment and realize that this person is black. And some days, this character wakes up and feels black, and some days, she doesn't. That is, for me, a fully black experience.

Jessica Williams

Character Great Moment Experience Me

I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.

Good Hope Job People World Think

For work I get so dolled up that it's nice to wear boyfriend jeans and a sweater.

Work Nice Sweater Jeans Up Wear

Things I didn't have in the past I try to give to kids. I know how it feels not to have things. We were poor, but we had enough food to eat. It was a big family, four kids, and it was not like you could just go and buy something. But we had the essentials, the food.

Family Food Past Enough You Know

In 1861, Bachofen published his radical thesis that the Amazons were not a myth but a fact. In his view, humanity started out under the rule of womankind and only switched to patriarchy at the dawn of civilization.

Dawn View Humanity Civilization Out

First and foremost, it's paramount for young child to learn how to swim, and the best place for that to happen is at primary school if they've got the facilities.

Best School Child Learn Place Young

When I became mayor of New York City, I had a $2.4 billion deficit. And everybody wanted me to raise taxes. I said, 'If I raise taxes, I'll drive people out of New York City, and then I'll be raising taxes again.' So what I did was I cut expenses by 15 percent.

New York People City Me Drive New

'Robot Chicken' was one of my favorite shows.

Chicken Robot Favorite Shows

My friends and family all know me, and that's the important thing.

Family Friends And Family Me Friends

Don't sit and wish for some ideal; the grass is not always greener with the big house and cars and artwork.

Jonathan Coleman

Wish House Grass Always Big Sit

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world.

Time World Real Real World Read

People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Mother Day People Say Nothing She

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