"I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots."

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Source : Hesketh Pearson (1965). “Hesketh Pearson by Himself. (1. Ed.)”, London : Heinemann

Hesketh Pearson

#Education Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Idiot Quotes

“I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.”
“The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.”
“It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.”

Source : "The MH Interview: Chad Kroeger". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. October 26, 2012.
“I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.”
“I had to be careful. A mistake I made when I submitted ideas initially was that one of them was too much like Elephant and Piggie, thinking that was what it needed to be. That's not what Mo was looking for. But I did definitely keep them in the back of my mind. It was tricky. Like Mo Willems was saying, it had to be something that Elephant and Piggie would like to read, yet we shouldn't make anything that was too much like Elephant and Piggie, because why would you want to do that?”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“Some stories aren't black and white.”
“I've lived a little bit and traveled the world and experienced a lot of things that I can play any role, and I think I can get into stuff that people never thought I would ever do because of my experiences and growth as a person.”
“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”

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