Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes
We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.
Quotes to Explore
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
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Pilates is great.
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What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.
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It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.
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Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
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Out of respect for my gay male readers, I'll resist the temptation to characterize this ruling as 'shoving gay marriage down our throats.'
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The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.
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'Hot Pursuit,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Trainwreck,' and 'Spy' were all being done in the last year. All four of those movies I just mentioned are not rom-coms: they're all about women doing different things.
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her about this weird kid in my class who drew only with black crayons and didn't speak to other kids. I talked about it so much that my mother brought it up with the teacher, who said, 'What? That's your son.'
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One of the pupils of Artur Schnabel told me that he never heard his teacher practice a difficult passage slowly, but he was struck by the way Schnabel would play one chord of a slow movement over and over, measuring and remeasuring the different components of the harmony.
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I am content. While my shrewd fellows rode about the world to seek and to attain power and wisdom, I have elected, as and unpractical realist, to follow after beauty.
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In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.
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We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.
