Ken Robinson Quotes
Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
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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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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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My writing process hasn't changed - it's is the same whether I'm working on a Y.A. novel or, as now, a new novel for adults. A lot of reading, a lot of research if the subject warrants it, a lot of sticky notes and scraps of paper - and get to work.
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I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.
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I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.
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Maturity transformation is a central part of the economic function of banks and many other types of financial intermediaries.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
