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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older…
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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
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Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened.…
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Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until…
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You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle…
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The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that…
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Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
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There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
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I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things…
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One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one…
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Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the…
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You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing…
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I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they…
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Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical…
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I taught the Constitution for ten years, I believe in the Constitution.
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We became a congresswoman, a stay-at-home mom, a filmmaker, and a journalist. And Lino and I taught our children that they could…
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In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved…
— Dianna Agron
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When I first broke into the acting industry, I taught spinning classes to support myself.
— Stephen Amell
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
— Jackson Browne
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
— Zaha Hadid
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
— G. Gordon Liddy
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I…
— John Maynard Keynes
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I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various…
— David O. Russell
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I've got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.
— Ray Lewis
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