Able Quote by Twyla Tharp

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

— Russell Banks

My mother was a teacher.

— Hugh Grant

During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt Beth's friend…

— Siobhan Fallon Hogan

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

— Al Franken

I was going to become a teacher.

— Anne Murray

The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in…

— Robert Wilson

It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was…

— Chris Van Allsburg

My senior year at College Park, University of Maryland, I took an elective class in crime fiction taught by Charles C. Mish. He turned…

— George Pelecanos

Gina Gershon was a year ahead of me in college.

— Jennifer Coolidge

My mother was a professor of English and History.

— Sonu Sood

Back in 2008, after we'd won the election, no one really expected me to keep teaching. But I couldn't just walk away... So I…

— Jill Biden

My elementary education was at Christ Church infant school and St. Stephen's junior school. At St. Stephen's, I encountered my first real mentor, the…

— Richard J. Roberts