Alissa Quart Quotes
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.
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It's no secret that I'm called to a different place, maybe, for some of the beliefs in the LGBTQ community because of my faith. With that said, I'm also called to be accepting and compassionate.
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If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
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There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together and actually run the school themselves. That's kind of the most radical way, but I think something that's more doable across the board is just creating career ladders for teachers that allow certain teachers after a certain number of years to inhabit new roles. Roles mentoring their peers, helping train novice teachers to be better at their jobs, roles writing the curriculum, leading on lesson planning.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.
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Precariousness is not just a working-class thing.
