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'Showboat' is the quintessential family show. -- Harold Prince
I was your quintessential nerd in high school. -- Neal Boortz
My father was the quintessential husband and dad. -- Sidney Poitier
'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. -- Sara Shepard
When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe. -- Rachel Roy
Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill. -- Gail Simmons
I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman. -- Taylor Momsen
President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do. -- Monica Crowley
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. -- John Berger
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements. -- Louis Dudek
In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes. -- Barry Unsworth
A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish. -- Ben Elliot
A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular. -- Claire Tomalin
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse. -- James Fenton
I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that. -- Madonna Ciccone
As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff. -- Mandy Moore
My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef. -- Jacques Pepin
I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn't the natural mother that I always thought I would be. I adore children, but I was never that interested in newborn babies. -- Jane Green
Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield. -- Melissa Gilbert
The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by government interference and increasingly global in reach. But the Chinese government has shown that the Internet can be successfully filtered and controlled. -- Martin Jacques
We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something. -- Anant Agarwal
Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate. -- Karan Johar
The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along with information theory. DNA is the quintessential information molecule, the most advanced message processor at the cellular level - an alphabet and a code, 6 billion bits to form a human being. -- James Gleick
I think that, to a lot of people, they don't like my brand of whatever I do. And I think that people - the ones that like me, at least - see me as their brother or their older uncle or their friend or their next door neighbour. I am the quintessential boy next door; I feel that way. -- Robbie Williams
The Last Five Years' is this quintessential piece, and every song is an actor's song, and every song is incredibly difficult and incredibly powerful and incredibly amazing. It was one of those things in college where, like, you gauged how good you were by how well you were able to pull off a song from 'The Last Five Years.' -- Jeremy Jordan
New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now have to be rich to live here. Or not live here: New York's also a preferred destination for foreign money spent on vast, lifeless apartments in the sky that are occupied a couple of weeks a year at most. -- Graydon Carter
I don't like quintessential certitude. -- Louise Bogan
The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso. -- Ernesto Illy
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. -- William Rounseville Alger
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. -- Sara Shepard
The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. -- Sara Shepard
Anger is the quintessential individual-signature emotion: I am what makes me mad. -- Gina Barreca
The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net. -- Mike Liut
I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album. -- Mark Kozelek
The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! -- Evelyn Waugh
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential. -- Gerhard Richter
Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do. -- John Wesley
It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect. -- bell hooks
[My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural." -- Dick Wolf
Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life. -- Marlon Brando
I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to. -- Philip Freelon
I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost. -- Bill Watterson
The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult. -- Fede Alvarez
The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American. -- Lou Reed
In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care. -- Bernard Lown
The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive. -- Joan Fontcuberta
One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence. -- Bruce Eric Kaplan
The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community. -- Radhika Coomaraswamy
I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman. -- Leslie Bibb
People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed. -- Garrett Hardin
I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies. -- Morgan Freeman
Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph. -- Michael Kenna
I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters. -- Vin Diesel
The courage to press on regardless--regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us--is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor. -- John C. Bogle
Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother's and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to mood, advancing and retreating-the quintessential model of two-mindedness. -- Judith Viorst
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It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman. -- Barry S. Strauss
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time. -- Hayden Carruth

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