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Sometimes you just have to trust the kids. The first glimpse of Wheelock Family Theatre's Shrek is a surprise. Instead of the round, green, smoothly computer-animated ogre of the movie, this Shrek is tall and hairy, with a lumpy green headpiece and mossy dreads. But as played by Christopher Chew in Wheelock's “Shrek the Musical,†this ogre was a hit with the children. they laughed and cheered and clapped in all the right places.
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It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.
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You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
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Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.
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Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.
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I love to entertain. I love being able to make people laugh.
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The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
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It is people who are important, not the masses.
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I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.
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Instead of focusing on the amount of money lacking in your budget, focus on what you DO have: a willing spirit, an imagination filled with bright ideas, people who care about you and can perhaps help you in some way. These are the things that will enable you to do almost anything.
