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“Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted only in the "Northwest Passage" and, even there, only by highly imaginative and overenthusiastic novelists.”
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“My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation.”
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“The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.”
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“No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.”
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“Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room”
Source : Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.42, Penguin
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“You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.”
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“You don't want to not be single because you're scared of being single.”
Source : "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.