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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
Quote by -Orlando Bloom
[Tom] Wolfe's books offered a whole new world to step into, and whilst at times you could accuse him of being somewhat long-winded, he had an incredible quality of prose and a bravery of writing from the heart. He believed in being autobiographical at all times.
Quote by -Jude Law
When you got source material, whether it's a play or a book - a great writer often appreciates being adapted and developed. It's like when you go see a production of a great play and they are always different. There is always room for interpretation.
Quote by -Jude Law
At my school, which was all boys, I played almost exclusively lady parts. When I say lady parts, I mean parts that were ladies. To actually play lady parts would be weird, even by English standards.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.
Quote by -Michael Sheen
This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
Quote by -Stephen Fry
A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.
Quote by -Stephen Fry
Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.
Quote by -Stephen Fry
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Quote by -Alan Bennett
... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.
Quote by -Alan Bennett
Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.
Quote by -Alan Bennett
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
Quote by -Alan Bennett
Books are wonderful, aren't they?' she said to the vice-chancellor who concurred. 'At the risk of sounding like a piece of steak,' she said, 'they tenderise one.
Quote by -Alan Bennett
Proust's is a long book, though, water- skiing permitting, you could get through it in the summer recess
Quote by -Alan Bennett
“When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"”
Quote by -Milton Berle
“The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.”
Quote by -Milton Berle
“For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.”
Quote by -Milton Berle
“Sir, I didn't deserve the grade you gave me on this test. Do you know a lower one?”
Quote by -Milton Berle
"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."
Quote by -Robert Frost
"Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree."
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."
Quote by -Aleister Crowley
"I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for."
Quote by -Beck
"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."
Quote by -Lee Iacocca
"A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes."
Quote by -Henry Ward Beecher
"I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation."
Quote by -Beyonce Knowles
"The growth for education and training will be in continuing adult education. Online delivery is the trigger for this growth, but the demand for lifetime education stems from profound changes in society. We live in an economy where knowledge, not buildings and machinery, is the chief resource and where knowledge-workers make up the biggest part of the work force."
Quote by -Peter Drucker
"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."
Quote by -Jean-Jacques Rousseau