Lynn Schusterman Quotes
Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World's multi-year effort to mobilize Jews across the nation to serve as tutors, mentors, and college access coaches for public school children.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
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I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
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When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.
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When you're young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, 'This is totally the truth', 'cos you don't know any difference, so there's a real confidence in your way of thinking.
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Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.
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TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.
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Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World's multi-year effort to mobilize Jews across the nation to serve as tutors, mentors, and college access coaches for public school children.
