Jose Rizal Quotes
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading and mathematics, but also soft skills, like conflict resolution and financial management.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
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Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
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I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don't express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent.
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After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
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I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'
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The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.
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Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
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One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.
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We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.
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People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.
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It makes me happy to work. And it makes me a better mother to be a happy person.
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The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.
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If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.
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It took me a solid four or five years to feel really comfortable in front of the camera.
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Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.
