Firsts Quote by Peter Orner Download Open image “I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.” — Peter Orner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Firsts Prison Teaching Time
I've been working in adult prisons and juvenile prisons for some time. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like. — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America. — Tom Rooney Copy Share Image
I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Prison is no hardship, really. I'm in the art room as an assistant to the tutor, and basically, I'm doing what I like. — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers. — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
I have dedicated my career to advocating for a more equitable, humane criminal justice system. — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The… — Samuel Dash Copy Share Image
I went into criminal justice because I want to learn more about the law, about what's going on in this world, and be a… — Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Copy Share Image
I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“The lake is always east. East is always the lake. Anywhere else he's ever been he never knows where he is.” — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.” — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people. — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the glut of… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I usually have a location and then I put the character there. I love place names. I think I'm tricking myself by being so… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
People have to follow their own strangeness. The minute they start making their own vision of the world flattened out so everyone can read… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Considering the multitude of things that happen in any one person’s life, it seems fairly unlikely that those little boys remembered the incident for… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our tall buildings?… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I always say there are two things to be successful. The first is decide exactly what you want - set your goals - and… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first. — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it. — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image