Jonathan Kozol Quotes
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I've directed independent film.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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It's crazy because I have a scar on my right eyebrow, but people who don't know me very well think that I just intentionally shave that part of it.
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I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.
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Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.
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Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.
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It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
