"I feel vulnerable every single time I step into a classroom. I feel completely exposed."

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Source : "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Colleen Saidman

#Steps Quotes #Classroom Quotes #Vulnerable Quotes

“When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.”

Source : Vincent Starrett (1929). “Penny wise and book foolish”
“You can't be selective about freedom of speech. If you say you believe in freedom of speech you have to acknowledge the people whose views you disagree with, people whose views you may detest, nevertheless have the right to freedom of speech.”

Source : "Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten". Book by Edward Dmytryk, 1996.
“The drama is the book of the people.”

Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.87
“If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.”

Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.174, Open Road Media
“People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.”
“I don't like to date so much as I just like to kind of, you know, run into somethin', man.”
“You know what comes next, of course. You know I'm writing this at my desk, on a Thursday, and day after tomorrow I'll put on bib overalls, the neighbors thinking what an affectation, and pull weeds for the composter, and dig a place for a late row of greens, most of them going to seed instead of in the pot, and tell myself what the hell, I just want to dig the dirt and watch the stuff grow, an educated fool at last.”
“The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived.”

Source : Ronald Hutton (2001). “Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain”, p.71, OUP Oxford

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