Ken Robinson Quotes
Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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I like being unconventional.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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The difference between Oprah Winfrey and me is about $200 million.
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
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The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.
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We live in a society where it's cool to be criminal.
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Everything about 'UY' is new and fresh, and we are extremely happy at the response from the audiences, as most people are walking out of cinema halls with a smile on their faces.
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Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.
