Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes
Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.
Quotes to Explore
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
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I have always dealt with economic forces, rather than philosophic forces, but you can't split history into neat little non-overlapping divisions. For instance, religions tend to accumulate wealth when successful and that eventually tends to distort the economic development of a society.
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What's Buffy got? A wooden stake, some garlic. Xena has a full arsenal of weapons.
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As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.
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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
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I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.
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I was really interested in meeting Peter Coyote.
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I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.
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I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it's a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.
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Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.
