"As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit"

-- Carol Ann Tomlinson

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“Big scandal on the new 'Survivor' series. The white, the black and the Hispanic teams were caught cheating off the Asian team.”
“. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .”
“It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children's point of view.”

Source : "‘Mission: Impossible 4’ Villain Michael Nyqvist Talks New Movie, Memoir". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.
“I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights and how you were afraid to cross the bridge 'cause the Irish kid on the other side would beat your head in. I left Chicago a long time ago.”
“It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do not change by being told what to do. You only change through seeing what you have to do when you realize what your being is like.”
“Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.”

Source : G. Willow Wilson (2010). “The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to the beguiling moon. Iâ€™ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. Iâ€™ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. Iâ€™ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things Iâ€™ve never done, but oh, how Iâ€™ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, Iâ€™d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially.”

Source : Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.1, Vintage Canada

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