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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Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.
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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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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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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'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.
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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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The older I get, I realize, 'Man, I'm a very rare bird,' and that's not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.
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I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
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You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.
