"Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am."

-- Jeffrey Donovan

#Teacher Quotes #Encouragement Quotes #School Quotes

“Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.”

Source : "Stupidity is not a resignable offense" by Mark Shields, www.cnn.com. March 17, 2003.
“Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.”
“More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.”
“Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.”

Source : John Jewel (1848). “The Works of John Jewel, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury”, p.323
“The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.”

Source : "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.
“The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.”
“The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.”
“You shouldn't been pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Beinz size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.”

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