- Nov 07, 2020
Girl Quotes
Reflections on identity, from childhood on.
This set of girl quotes includes a candid admission of feeling awkward and anxious in social settings, alongside a simple description of small-town roots. One entry recalls a childhood memory of performing where a parent once sat in the audience. Related reflections continue in our Girl Power quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant gratification, or all the little things that you can do with them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I've come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father, David Ray McCoy, and I'm totally a daddy's girl.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is wonderful, but it's not pulling in the type of money that I want. It's not bringing in the type of money that I am used to or the type of money that is going to supply my lifestyle. I'm a leisure girl; I like to be over in Italy or in Europe, you know shopping or vacationing, you know.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am such a vacation girl. I have little places that I go to frequently! If I am not too busy on a weekend, I try to go someplace like Mexico or Manzanillo or something like that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a real home girl.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been the only girl in those environments. It's comfortable for me - I prefer it, actually.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn't seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro's Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Set a good example as parents, since the most convincing argument that a girl can become a computer coder is that her mother is one.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the 'party girl'. I hate that. I bust my ass when I'm filming and when I have time off, yeah, I like to go out and dance.
- Curves
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been a thin girl. I grew up being - I don't want to say a plus-size girl, but a girl of curves and substance.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020