April Greiman Quotes
Teachers of design should help a student to find their own voice. In other words, not be a templated version of the teacher, but rather to help them the students unfold what they already know and can bring to the table.
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I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
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Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.
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The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.
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Acting is acting.
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if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
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Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.
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Today, Israeli democracy has spoken its piece, in a loud and clear voice.
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Teachers of design should help a student to find their own voice. In other words, not be a templated version of the teacher, but rather to help them the students unfold what they already know and can bring to the table.
