513 private quotes tagged teacher

“My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.” — C. L. R. James

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“Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.” — Maggie Gallagher

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“I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.” — Dominic Cooper

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“I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.” — Ellen Pompeo

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“I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.” — Danny McBride

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“You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.” — Danny McBride

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“So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.” — Donald Norman

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“Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.” — Keith Emerson

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“Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.” — Krist Novoselic

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“I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.” — Kevin Richardson

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“Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.” — Sarah Sutton

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“My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.” — Ajay Naidu

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“I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.” — Eva Green

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“I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.” — Matt Cameron

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“My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.” — Simon Callow

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“I always wanted to be a teacher.” — Nicky Hilton

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“I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.” — Martin Mull

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“People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.” — Doug E. Fresh

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“It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!” — Thom Gunn

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“I wasn't a very good teacher.” — Amos Lee

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“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” — Hector Berlioz

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“When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.” — George J. Mitchell

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“I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.” — Carrie Ann Inaba

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“Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.” — Betty Buckley

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“For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'” — Betty Buckley

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