"I am not a teacher. I am an awakener."

-- Robert Frost

#Teacher Quotes

“How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?”
“Every day, every scene, you were like, "My god. I'm doing a scene with Brian Cox today and then I'm onto a scene with Stephen Rea." For us young actors, I think we were all very, very star-struck and impressed by the caliber of everyone who came out.”

Source : "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.
“And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life”
“Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.”
“Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable”
“Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.”
“One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.”
“I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.”

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