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Anne Sullivan Macy on teacher
Author: Anne Sullivan Macy“I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.” -Anne Sullivan Macy
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Frances Farmer on teacher
Author: Frances Farmer“The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.” -Frances Farmer
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John Krasinski on teacher
Author: John Krasinski“I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I’ve ever…
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Tom Perrotta on teacher
Author: Tom Perrotta“When I was writing ‘The Abstinence Teacher,’ I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.” -Tom Perrotta
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Sela Ward on teacher
Author: Sela Ward“I had an art teacher who’s the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That’s where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.” -Sela Ward
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Jon Secada on teacher
Author: Jon Secada“I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.” -Jon Secada
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Pat Boone on teacher
Author: Pat Boone“Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.” -Pat Boone
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Ken Wilber on teacher
Author: Ken Wilber“What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It’s not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.” -Ken Wilber
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Marvin Hamlisch on teacher
Author: Marvin Hamlisch“I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister’s lessons.” -Marvin Hamlisch
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Kurt Masur on teacher
Author: Kurt Masur“The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.” -Kurt Masur
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Toru Takemitsu on teacher
Author: Toru Takemitsu“Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher – the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.” -Toru Takemitsu
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Jean Reno on teacher
Author: Jean Reno“I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.” -Jean Reno
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Frank McCourt on teacher
Author: Frank McCourt“The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.” -Frank McCourt
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Harvey Keitel on teacher
Author: Harvey Keitel“Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler – I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.” -Harvey Keitel
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Bill Moyers on teacher
Author: Bill Moyers“As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.” -Bill Moyers
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Devon Sawa on teacher
Author: Devon Sawa“I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I’d have like one teacher, which was really bad.” -Devon Sawa
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Robert Sternberg on teacher
Author: Robert Sternberg“There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them.” -Robert Sternberg
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Dave Winfield on teacher
Author: Dave Winfield“And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It’s been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you’ll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.” -Dave Winfield
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Sue Kelly on teacher
Author: Sue Kelly“As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.” -Sue Kelly
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Betty Buckley on teacher
Author: Betty Buckley“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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Justin Townes Earle on teacher
Author: Justin Townes Earle“I’ve always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don’t think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.” -Justin Townes Earle
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Carrie Ann Inaba on teacher
Author: Carrie Ann Inaba“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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George J. Mitchell on teacher
Author: George J. Mitchell“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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Hector Berlioz on teacher
Author: Hector Berlioz“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” -Hector Berlioz
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Richard Dreyfuss on teacher
Author: Richard Dreyfuss“If I wasn’t an actor, I’d be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.” -Richard Dreyfuss