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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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Every person deserves to be treated fairly under the law.
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When I got laid off, I would write my friends these 15-page-long emails. This was before people had personal emails, and my friends would tell me that I was going to get them fired if I kept sending them stuff, so I started a website.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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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.
