"That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next."

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Source : Alice Childress, Kathy A. Perkins (2011). “Selected Plays”, p.204, Northwestern University Press

Alice Childress

#Looks Quotes #Next Quotes #Look Up Quotes

“I get really excited about jewelry.”
“I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.”
“As to bloodâ€”ah, blood, the whole subject fascinates me. I do like that as well, warm and dripping, when I am thirsty. And I am often thirsty.”
“By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.”
“In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.”

Source : Song: In Your Eyes Special Mix, 1986
“She looked up at the sky, now tinged with orange. "Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to music..." She stopped briefly. "Look at paintings, allow yourself to be moved. Laugh a lot, and at times, cry. And if you find a wonderful girl, then you go for her, and love her.”
“The wheel of government will continue to work, even as these people come in and we wait for them, but the issue is, there's always one thing, that a new administration confronts.For the Bush administration, it was terrorism. For this administration, it's going to be cyber-security, not Russian hacking. That's a symptom of the bigger problem, but the bigger issue of cyber, how they deal with that. So, we may see something else we're not anticipating. That's going to be their challenge.”
“Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it”

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