Esme Raji Codell Quotes

Nobody really knows which is happening when the teacher closes the door. At worst, mediocrity. At best, miracles.

Esme Raji Codell

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• I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.

  

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• I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

  

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• I owe it all to Jesus.

  

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• I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

  

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• Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

  

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• I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.

  

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• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

  

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• I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.

  

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• I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.

  

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• There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

  

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• Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.

  

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• Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.

  

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• I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

  

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• I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

  

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• I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story 'greater than the sum of its parts.'

  

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• Oddly, I believe that emotional proximity we feel to close loved ones makes it hard to be honest with them about feelings of depression.

  

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• I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!

  

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• I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

  

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• The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.

  

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• Until we Dream of Life and Life becomes a Dream.

  

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• I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

  

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  • School
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• Nobody really knows which is happening when the teacher closes the door. At worst, mediocrity. At best, miracles.

  

  Esme Raji Codell
  • Teacher
  • Door
  • Miracles