David Almond Quotes
It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
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I don't really like those sorts of actresses who say, 'I don't want to make that movie,' but they make the movie. They just spend their time not liking being on a set and I just think it's absurd, because we are so lucky to do this job. When you accept to make a movie, just make the movie. And then it's more easy for relationships.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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Something I'm going to try to really instill in my own family is a lot of tradition. And, I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.
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It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
