Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
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I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
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Teaching kids to become something other than what they were born to be is probably impossible; teaching them to behave in ways that seem unnatural to them at the start is actually not that hard.
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The story of New Order is all about learning from our mistakes.
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The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.
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In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.
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My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.
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Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.
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Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished
