"We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people."

-- Jonathan Kozol

#Educational Quotes #Writing Quotes #Winning Quotes

“I've been 11, 12 percent body fat my whole career. But when you've got a big, sexy, beautiful man that's up in the 340s, 350s, the way you guys were taught on this planet, you're going to automatically think it's fat.”
“Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder still, Form in the shadows of the trees,-- Things that you could not spare And live, or so you thought, yet these All gone, and you still there, A man no longer what he was, Not yet the thing he planned...”
“I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.”
“I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.”
“Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.”
“Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the tone control all at the same time - creating harmonics that no human being should be able to hit.”
“I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.”

Source : "Juliet Stevenson: The power of storytelling" by Juliet Stevenson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2009.
“Physician, heal thyself. Teacher, teach yourself.”

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