513 private quotes tagged teacher

“I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.” — Garrett Hedlund

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“When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.” — Norman MacCaig

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“I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.” — Martin Yan

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“I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.” — Karlie Kloss

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“In the ideal classroom, the teacher is either spending all of their time doing deep interventions with students on a one-on-one basis or facilitating true interactivity - labs, simulations, projects.” — Salman Khan

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“When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'” — Roddy Doyle

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“I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.” — Alex O'Loughlin

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“I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.” — Elizabeth Olsen

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“I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.” — Susan Hampshire

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“From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.” — Mark Hoppus

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“All I wanted was to be a university teacher.” — Jalal Talabani

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“I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.” — Vinny Guadagnino

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“My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.” — Idina Menzel

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“I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.” — Derek Jacobi

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“Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.” — Ann Richards

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“Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.” — Clay Aiken

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“But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.” — Clay Aiken

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“As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.” — Jenna Bush

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“In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.” — Trevor Nunn

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“I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.” — Cory Monteith

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“If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.” — Alan Sugar

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“If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.” — Oscar Hammerstein II

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“I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.” — Andrew Shue

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“I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.” — Andrew Shue

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“I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.” — Mike Judge

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