Shirley Hufstedler Quotes

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

Shirley Hufstedler

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Ugly
  • Face

• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wonder

• I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Man
  • Black

• I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Prove

• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Broken

• In an Indian kitchen, the focus is on getting the job or dish done right in whatever way possible; however, in a French kitchen there's a clear hierarchy, and a chef has to know where their skills are and not go beyond them.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Done
  • Job
  • Focus

• You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Fashion

• If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Career
  • Play
  • Villain

• This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Race
  • Square
  • Times Square

• Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Car
  • See
  • Ugly

• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Work
  • Government
  • New

• I can't really say enough about Chris Potter. He is one of the greatest musicians I have ever known, and every second I have been on the band stand with him has been an absolute pleasure.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Band
  • Stand
  • Greatest

• I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Eating
  • Watching
  • Loser

• Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Sad
  • Moment
  • Lion

• With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Labyrinth

• When you're in a band, you spend most of your time in a van. Like, there were four of us, we toured all the time, and you're stuck looking at three other people for a month straight. And all of those times, we all just liked making fun of people, doing impressions of people, coming up with songs.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm human, and I make mistakes.

  

  Draymond Green

• When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • School
  • Happy
  • Science

• You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Break
  • Calling
  • Tall

• I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

  

  Shirley Hufstedler
  • School
  • Education
  • Teaching