Jonathan Kozol Quotes
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.
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I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.
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'Battlestar' was 22 episodes - 9 to 10 months a year - and we were exhausted. You finish shooting, and the last thing you want to do is go back to work. You want those 3 months off because you're tired - it's a grueling shooting schedule.
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I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thought that I could take my business training and apply it here. I worked in retail and was into fashion. It was something I liked, and people trusted my opinion.
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Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
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I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.
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To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.
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There's simply too much fuss about myself.
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One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.
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The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
