There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands.
I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.
We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.
When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.
They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?
When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.
I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.
But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.
Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.
I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.
Becca: I'm so wet right now. Evan: Yeah... they said that would happen in health class.
You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.
Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.
The reason there weren't any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn't have the money to take those kind of classes.
