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• Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.

  Amy Hempel

  Writing, Interesting, Want

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• My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.

  John Michael Higgins

  Years, Class, Parent

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

  Geri Halliwell

  Important, Learning From Others

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• In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

  Jeff Hawkins

  School, People, United States

  "America’s Shameful Moments" by Jeff Hawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.

  Kay Hagan

  Believe, School, Sunday

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• When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.

  Richard Madden

  Couple, Years, Tv Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Mother, Forgiving, Kind

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• 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.

  Greg Iles

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.

  Constance Jablonski

  Fashion, Morning, Thinking

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• John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

  Judy Johnson

  Baseball, Men, Play

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• Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Who I Am, Order, Needs

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• Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Democracy, Generations

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• I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Writing, Passion, Important

  "Interview: Lisa Kleypas, author of 'Crystal Cove'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. February 14, 2013.

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• My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

  John Mahoney

  Opposites, Class, Play

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• I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

  David O. Russell

  Jobs, Writing, Class

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• It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

  Robert Kagan

  Age, Known, One Thing

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• And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

  Norman MacCaig

  Thinking, Literature, Poetry Is

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• Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Teaching, Thinking, Class

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• My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Understanding, Culture, Study

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.103, Penguin

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• Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Education, Ignorance, Apathy

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• Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

  Stevie Wonder

  Education, Men, Age

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• Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Expression, Oneness, Religion

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2974, Manonmani Publishers

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• All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera!

  Eva LaRue

  Children, Work Ethic, Opera

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• I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

  Sam Palladio

  Self, Trying, Together

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• These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.

  Hari Kunzru

  Thinking, Play, People

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