Ken Robinson Quotes
The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.
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I didn't get to the Senate by accident.
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We are a nation of laws.
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I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
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Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.
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The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.
