"I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to the store? And I was saying, Oh God, I want to learn something else. I wanted to learn to read and write better and do mathematics better. They were very much into Abstract Expressionism and that artsy stuff. And where most kids did what I call meaningless blobs, I could render perfectly."

-- Paul Laffoley

#Kids Quotes #Writing Quotes #School Quotes

“Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.”
“Pluto is not a planet, but I am.”
“Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.”
“Words are spiritual containers,”
“Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.”
“Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.”
“That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.”

Source : Edward Gordon Craig (2008). “On the Art of the Theatre”, p.41, Routledge
“Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.”

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