Jonathan Kozol Quotes
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
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Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.
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Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
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I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.
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The children of today are the builders of a brave, new world - a world without want.
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The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.
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Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
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I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
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We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.
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You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love.
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Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.
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And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.
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We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.
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In order for a narrative to work, the primary character should have a concrete desire - a need that drives her story - and the story's writer should make this goal known to the reader pretty early in the narrative.
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You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.
