"The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts."

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Source : Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

Ellen Goodman

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“People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.”
“Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance.”
“The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.”

Source : James Bryce “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 4: Illustrations and Reflections & Social Institutions”, Jazzybee Verlag
“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”
“Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettos and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettos and barrios would be the second wand.”

Source : "Two Wands, One Nation: An Essay on Race and Community in America". Book by Richard Lamm, 2006.
“Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.”
“The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.”
“If I ever teach writing again, Iâ€™d say the first lesson is to listen.”

Source : "Lucky Man" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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