Wendy Kopp Quotes
I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.
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My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.
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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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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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I appreciate someone who stands out and stands up for what he believes in, because that's what I'm trying to do.
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I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.
