"Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world."

-- Adora Svitak

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #School Quotes

“I found the support inside Old Trafford has been terrific and, if there was ever a show of support for the football club and team, it was in this game. Inside Old Trafford it was terrific, it really was.”

Source : "Plane sailing for David Moyes as Manchester United fans boo banner" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2014.
“I'm still very sensitive and wary of people recognising me The only thing that really annoys me is people trying to surreptitiously take a photo on their phone without asking. I feel it's cowardly and a bit pathetic. Just ask me if you really want me to have a photograph with you.”

Source : Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.
“Find your Light; They can't love you if they can't see you”
“My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.”
“I used to dance a lot when I was younger. And I didn't want to stop doing it. I auditioned for drama school and then, luckily, I got my first job. There was never really a particular moment, more like moments of "I love this," or scripts that you read, or films that you watch, or plays that you see, that make you want to keep doing it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that youâ€™d read and read again, until one night you picked it up to read yourself to sleep and the binding collapsed, sending dozens of pages spiraling toward the floor.”

Source : Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.147, Simon and Schuster
“Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.”

Source : Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.18, The New Press
“When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.”

Source : "Carrie-Anne Moss for “Suspect Zero”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. August 10, 2004.

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