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I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.

Quotes by Jeremy Irvine

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

Quotes by Jennie Garth

I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.

Quotes by Jenn Proske

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

Quotes by Jenna Bush

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.

Quotes by Jenna Bush

Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

Quotes by Jeffrey Donovan

Gary Sinise and I go the furthest back of the Steppenwolf people; we were both saved from academic mediocrity as sophomores by being cast in 'West Side Story' by this transformationally beautiful teacher named Barbara Patterson.

Quotes by Jeff Perry

To have a drama teacher as a mentor was just like, 'Oh, what a gift.'

Quotes by Jeff Perry

When I was in high school, the drama teacher picked me to play Iago in 'Othello.'

Quotes by Jeff Perry

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

Quotes by Jeb Bush

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

Quotes by Jeanine Basinger

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

Quotes by Jean Rostand

My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

Quotes by Jean Fritz

When I protested because they wouldn't buy me new skates or if someone complained a teacher gave too much homework, Dad would respond: There's no whining in this house. It was his way of saying: there is no place in this house for feeling sorry for yourself.

Quotes by Jean Kennedy Smith

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.

Quotes by Jay Mohr

I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.

Quotes by Jay Nixon

I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny. A real charmer with a prominent mustache that he didn't know what to do with and a smart-alecky attitude.

Quotes by Jason Mantzoukas

From being a teacher and educator, I see the state of the music through the eyes of an 18-year-old coming on to the scene, and we want to make sure it stays intact. With my generation, it's our duty to do that.

Quotes by Jason Moran

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

Quotes by January Jones

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

Quotes by Janet Fitch

Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.

Quotes by Jane Yolen

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

Quotes by Jane Haddam

I was born and raised in Rogers Park in Chicago. My father sold furniture, and my mother was a Chicago public school teacher and proud member of the Chicago Teachers Union for decades.

Quotes by Jan Schakowsky

Jackie Berman, a 64-year-old widow and former special education teacher from Chicago, enrolled in Obamacare. She really needed coverage after sustaining serious injuries from being hit by a car. Now Jackie gets the care she needs at an affordable rate.

Quotes by Jan Schakowsky

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

Quotes by Jamie Moyer

Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing it on its feet.

Quotes by Jamey Sheridan

My mala beads are very precious to me. A yoga teacher and friend named Leslie made them for me with love and intention. They are very grounding, and I love them.

Quotes by Jamie Anderson

My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.

Quotes by James Wolk

There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.

Quotes by James Wolk

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

Quotes by James Tobin

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

Quotes by James S. Coleman

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

Quotes by James S. Coleman

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

Quotes by James Galway

You can get rid of the teacher certification requirements, and you're still not going to have a rush of incredibly high-quality people going into teaching as long as teachers are valued in the way they currently are. The way we value people is by how much we pay them.

Quotes by James Forman, Jr.

My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

Quotes by James Franco

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

Quotes by James Carville

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

Quotes by James Cash Penney

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

Quotes by James Collins

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Quotes by James Broughton

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

Quotes by Jalal Talabani

I hate tenure. Tenure allows teachers to put their feet up on the desk and possibly have a job forever. That's why I got turned on to charter schools. It's a business model. Every employee and every teacher will be monitored by performance.

Quotes by Jalen Rose

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.

Quotes by Jake Shimabukuro

In the time since I've done 'Bad Teacher,' I've produced an independent movie and directed two pilots. So I love to do all different types of things.

Quotes by Jake Kasdan

My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.

Quotes by Jai Courtney

Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a dance teacher, and the training and discipline it takes to be a dancer I've carried with me in Hollywood.

Quotes by Jaime Pressly

I was born to be a teacher, and I'll die a teacher.

Quotes by Jacques Parizeau

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

Quotes by Jacqueline Bisset

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

Quotes by Jacqueline Bisset

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

Quotes by Jaclyn Smith

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Quotes by Jack Welch

I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

Quotes by Jack Reynor

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

Quotes by Jack Canfield

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

Quotes by Jack Canfield

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

Quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer

I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

Quotes by J. K. Simmons

I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.

Quotes by J. K. Simmons

I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.

Quotes by J. Michael Bishop

In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.

Quotes by Israel Horovitz

I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.

Quotes by Ildar Abdrazakov

I've always taken apart calculators and anything I can get my hands on when I was younger. When I was around 12 - like, 6th grade - my parents always had around Mac computers because my mom is a teacher. So I'd always be playing around with all the crazy applications and making banners and printing things out and always into graphic design.

Quotes by iJustine

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.

Quotes by Idina Menzel

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Quotes by Huston Smith

Castro has been a teacher for me. A master. Not on ideology but on strategy.

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

I had a great acting teacher in high school. But I didn't like acting because it took too many people to get the job done. You have to talk to too many people and listen to others' opinions. With music, you get a few friends together and just make it.

Quotes by Hugh Dillon

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.

Quotes by Howard Stringer

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Quotes by Howard Nemerov

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.

Quotes by Howard Crosby

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Quotes by Horace Mann

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Quotes by Horace Mann

Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.

Quotes by Herbie Hancock

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.

Quotes by Herbert Hoover

When I was a freshman at Yale, one teacher brought me up after class and said, 'You're trying to undermine my class.' And I thought to myself, 'Oh my God, I'm going to be kicked out of school on the first week.' Not only do I not have a sense of self, I don't even know what she's talking about. I don't even know how to undermine anything.

Quotes by Henry Winkler

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Quotes by Henry Adams

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Quotes by Henny Youngman

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Helen Keller

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Quotes by Hector Berlioz

The building blocks of mathematical thinking are requisite for more advanced conceptualization. If a student is not ready to move on, then the teacher must take time to assist that learner.

Quotes by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Feeling pummeled by the outside pounding of tests and standards, a teacher can easily hide and simply turn to the immediacy of the classroom. It is not surprising that many teachers burrow in their rooms with all that they know about their students. There is no place to take the information.

Quotes by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Quotes by Haruki Murakami

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.

Quotes by Harvey Keitel

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

Quotes by Harry Callahan

No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.

Quotes by Harold Pinter

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

Quotes by Harold Bloom

Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

Quotes by Hampton Sides

Jesus was a teacher, in a way. I mean, essentially, Jesus was a teacher. He was teaching people. He was helping them see themselves for what they were. He was helping them see their power, their strength, their beauty, what they're capable of.

Quotes by Haaz Sleiman

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

Quotes by H. G. Wells

My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.

Quotes by Guy Davenport

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

Quotes by Guy Davenport

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

Quotes by Guy Kawasaki

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

Quotes by Gus Van Sant

Why can't a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can't I be a teacher? Why can't I be a football coach? Why can't I be a cab driver? Anything. Anything else than that. I can cry. I can do those things that they think the big guys can't do. So just give us a chance.

Quotes by Grizz Chapman

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.

Quotes by Gretchen Rubin

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

Quotes by Gretchen Rubin

Being in an acting class, you always feel like, you know, you're insecure, a lot of ways, when the teacher is commenting on your performance.

Quotes by Greg Sestero

My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.

Quotes by Greg Iles

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

Quotes by Grazia Deledda

Don't say I was an inspirational teacher - my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I hope I didn't do the children a disservice.

Quotes by Greg Davies

I had a great time as a teacher, but I was just treading water, as a lot of us do.

Quotes by Greg Davies

I wasn't a happy teacher, but I also wasn't an absolute psychopath like the teachers I portray on screen.

Quotes by Greg Davies

Being a teacher was great, but it wasn't what I wanted to do, so it was ultimately crushing.

Quotes by Greg Davies

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