Emily Barton Quotes
The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have found that many times, my students are experiencing problems that I myself have experienced in my work, but the solution is different because they're different people.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
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Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.
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I imagine that whatever contribution I can make to teaching derives from having had to rethink and re-create my technique.
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I can cry like Roger. It's just a shame I can't play like him.
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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
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'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
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It's a great honour to be recognised and appreciated by your fellow colleagues.
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I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.
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I'm always proud of what I've done and what I continue to do.
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I'm forever a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Apparently I've picked the worst baseball team in the world.
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Walking strengthens my legs, and I swing my arms to tone my upper body.
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By having a little bit of knowledge about many different things, it enables me to talk to people about a subject that they would not ordinarily think I could talk about. It's a lever for me, I suppose.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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When I was 17, my sister and I used to drive back from school in her car and sing the Spice Girls' chartbusters from the '90s at the top of our voices.
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The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have found that many times, my students are experiencing problems that I myself have experienced in my work, but the solution is different because they're different people.
