Courtney B. Vance Quotes
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.
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I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
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I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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I was a total dork in high school.
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I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.
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I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
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I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.
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There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.
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This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.
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Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.
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It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy.
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When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.
