Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley Quotes
I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.
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It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.
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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.
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There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
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The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.
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One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
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In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.
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My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education.
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It is possible to have a public education system that works.
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I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.
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We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.
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When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.
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It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?
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We who are left, how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?
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I learned how to handle myself in the kitchen - where to stand and how to be out of people's way and how to function like a machine.
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Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.
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I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.
