Luke Ford Quotes
I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.
Luke Ford
Quotes to Explore
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We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.
Nancy Gibbs
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
Kami Garcia
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
Patrick Carman
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
Patricia Cornwell
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'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.
Malcolm D. Lee
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We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
Dakota Fanning
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I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.
Tamsin Greig
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Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.
J. D. Vance
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
Malin Akerman
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
Rainbow Rowell
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
Laura Schlessinger
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I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.
Nawal El Saadawi
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I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
Hanya Yanagihara
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I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
E. G. Marshall
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Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.
Laini Taylor
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When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?
Edd Byrnes
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.
Walter Dean Myers
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A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.
Jack Canfield
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I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.
Luke Ford
