Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.
TV has gone back to basics, relating to middle class family with real characters, less make-up and simple shots. I feel as an actor it is a delight to work in such shows.
The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.
Math was always hard for me, but my dad would come up with ways of making it fun. I remember playing 'Number Munchers' on our old Mac... That counts as math class, right?
Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs.
Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.
People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.
Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.
I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did teach us the three Rs.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.
