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school figures ifs
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. Alan Watts
school hard-work church
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand. Alan Paton
school age taught
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself. Alan Moore
school opportunity thinking
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
school ideas forgotten
I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really. Alan Bennett
school boys oxford
My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
school care students
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. Alan Ball
school exercise keys
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time. Alan Alda
school thinking lasts
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
film certain made
Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made. Alan Rickman
film made love-films
I love films that are made with almost no budget.
film embarrassment
My films are about embarrassment.
film driven made
I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment. Alain Resnais
film reason reactions
For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.
film appeals relatability
The great appeal of film is its relatability. Akira Kurosawa
film-directing common problem
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
film made shows
I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking. David Shapiro
film crew film-crew
When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew. Bryce Dallas Howard
program explaining ifs
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. Alan Perlis
program
The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that. David Kay
program programming ifs
If we can't program it, we can't understand it. David Deutsch
program understood ifs
If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.
program six students
We started participating in the program in 2004. We started with six students at the Rockledge hospital, and now we have 12 there and two in Melbourne. Sandy Williams
program save sooner
Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid. Nathan Myhrvold
program advantage admission
Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged. Derek Bok
program social social-programs
I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive. Charles Evers
program support turn
We've been able to turn the program around and we're an (Jayhawk East) power. That's just because of the support that we've received.