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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Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.
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People love to talk but hate to listen.
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Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents and the society as a whole would like to believe. . . . The perception of childhood competence has shifted much of the responsibility for child protection and security from parents and society to children themselves.
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The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.
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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.
