Saul Bellow Quotes
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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It takes three to make a child.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
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I'm an only child, and we're a close family.
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It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
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I was bullied at school.
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
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My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could, in the morning before school. Sometimes he would tell us moralistic tales about genies, magic carpets and wondrous lands. My mother is not religious - she's just English.
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If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.
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I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.
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I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid.
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What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.
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The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.
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The more doubt you have, the less likely it is that the creation will come to life.
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Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.
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I don't like to lay down on my food - it's not good for you. I like to take a walk, then meditate and read the Bible.
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If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
