Alice Childress Quotes
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
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God is only a great imaginative experience.
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I'd love to do something at Marvel, but I don't think I would do a seven-movie deal. That's a bit too much for me.
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Voters memories will fade some.
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Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.
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The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
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The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
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Sex is nostalgia for sex.
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You have to hear from people who believe something different from you. That's why you go to college.
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I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.
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We just can't stay in a safe Republican seat and sit back and watch while this country goes down the wrong path.
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We were unhappy with the first 18 minutes of the game, and we weren't reacting defensively the way we like to see them react. In the second half, we stepped it up defensively and were able to get out and run.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
