Jonathan Kozol Quotes
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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You just have to sit down and write the next book. I mean, it's not all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book.
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Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
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Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people.
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I tried to live my life really openly and transparently right from the get-go. I think that probably resonated with people.
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There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
