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I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.

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• Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
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• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

  

  Vernon Howard
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• God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?

  

  Walter Kirn
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  • Character
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• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Decision
  • Face
  • Consequences

• I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Brain

• Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Good
  • Book
  • Success

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
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  • Focus

• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  

  Fannie Farmer
  • Progress
  • Civilization
  • Been

• I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.

  

  Angus Deaton
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• I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • Education
  • Single
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• I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.

  

  Susana Martinez
  • Education
  • Fight
  • Work Hard

• A part of me wants to leave you alone. A part of me wants for you to come home. A part of me says I'm living a lie and I'm better off without you.

  

  LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child
  • Home
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• I am a person who can't teach writing or make a living in any public way, as I get confused when interrupted or overstimulated. In a classroom or crowded room, I all but blank out. So my only income is from novels.

  

  Carolyn Chute
  • Writing
  • Confused

• I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Education
  • Organization
  • Films