"I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop."

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Dana Goldstein

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“Still humping the American Dream”
“Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.”
“Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.”
“Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.”

Source : Josef Pieper (1998). “Leisure, the Basis of Culture”, St Augustine PressInc
“Suddenly, after years of television being the poor relation and film being everything, it now feels like film is a conjuring trick. It's like, "Oh, my god, how are you going to do that in 90 minutes, as opposed to eight hours?! I've got so little time to do this!" It becomes an art form, in itself. Doing both helps you do each one.”
“Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.”
“Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.”
“The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.”

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