Bel Kaufman Quotes

I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.

Bel Kaufman

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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.

Caity Lotz
- Study
- Working
- Singer
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
- American
- America
- History
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

B. F. Skinner
- You
- Interesting
- Study
Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

L. Ron Hubbard
- Man
- Simple
- Study
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.

Garrett Hardin
- Enjoy
- Say
- Agree
Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

Hailee Steinfeld
- Time
- She
- Mom