"No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Teacher Quotes #School Quotes #Names Quotes

“Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.”

Source : “Sami Gayle” by By Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2013.
“People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.”
“You are allowed to do this - don't worry about the rules, don't worry about getting into trouble, your job is to take care of the customer. Your job is to make the person leave happy.”

Source : "John Pepper of Boloco: Acting On The Customer’s Voice". Interview with Brent Leary, smallbiztrends.com. December 15, 2015.
“The improvement of relations with German is positive, but this does not mean that we no longer have very important problems.”
“It is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions portrayed; it is only the untalented who make their own limitations those of the actors as well.”
“Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.”

Source : Susan Cheever (2015). “Home Before Dark”, p.233, Simon and Schuster
“Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.”
“To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.”

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