I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a…

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

— Michael Heizer

I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his…

— Leonard Susskind

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

— Paul Giamatti

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense.…

— Sarah Vowell

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

— Grace Paley

I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both…

— Emma Donoghue

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life…

— Walpola Rahula

Movies are movement. A comic-book is immobility. From one still picture to another, but no movement. You need to make the movement in your…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all…

— Orson Scott Card

The essence of training is the experience of training and what you learn about yourself through it. Training is about the process. You will…

— Martyn Rooney

“Spies have years of training and experience. I had half an hour of panic and a pig.”

— M.E. Castle