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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.
dyslexic kid needed sports
If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head. Caitlyn Jenner
dyslexic example middle people remember school
She is an example to dyslexic people and what you can do in the world, ... I can remember going through middle school struggling. I was on my own. Christopher King
dyslexic tempted
The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood. Richard Rogers
dyslexic thick
I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up. I'm dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days! Douglas Booth
dyslexic
I was, am , severely dyslexic and couldn't spell, still can't spell. So I was discouraged from writing and embarrassed. Fannie Flagg
dyslexic hit reading
I'm dyslexic when it comes to reading putts, too. I hit more putts that I think are going right and they go left-it's unbelievable.
dyslexic wells knows
I'm well beyond dyslexic: I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am. Jules Feiffer
dyslexic government handicap interests media protect
It's dyslexic policy. In telecommunications, the Government is doing all it can to handicap the incumbent, while in media it's doing all it can to protect the interests of the dinosaurs.