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Elizabeth Esty Quotes

We've become so accustomed to teaching to the tests that we've forgotten about a child's joy of discovery.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 25, 1959

Topics

Joy Child Discovery Become Forgotten

I'm on record that it didn't really traumatize me to do away with some people.

People Me Some People Away Some

'Six Feet Under,' for me, was college. Alan Ball and Alan Poul ran that show and really taught me what it meant to really run a show in a classic way.

College Me Feet Run Way Classic

Everybody relates to having a dream.

Jennifer Aniston

Dream Everybody Having Relates

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

New Things Easy Discovery Sometimes

In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services was and is, quite rightly, a state secret. To divulge it is a crime. The Services may choose to leak a name when it pleases them.

Day Identity Present Name Choose Up

People struggle with moments of deep dread about life and moments of surety. Often within the course of the same day. Life is a roller coaster, especially if you take risks.

Life Day Struggle Risks People Deep

Under Todd Haimes' leadership, Roundabout created a black-box theater whose sole mission was to house premieres by writers who are just starting out and have zero name recognition.

Leadership Name Recognition Mission

Everything we do in our growing up has been done before. But it needs recognition and validation each time for each one of us - public, private, and secret.

Time Growing Up Recognition Growing

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.

Robert B. Parker

Falcon Books Who Few Very About

When you ask a guy, 'Are you gonna take a fight if your opponent doesn't make weight?' Is it really asking? Does he really have a choice? When you back them into a corner like that, is there really a choice to be made?

Robert Whittaker

Fight You Back Choice Ask Asking

I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know.

Good I Am You Know Habits Vague

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

Job Book Game Believe Worry Long

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