Theresa Breslin Quotes

In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that gives them a sense of identity - to be able to read texts that chimes with their own world, corrals thoughts, and connects with the emotional conflicts of growing up.

Theresa Breslin

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In the media, I always seemed to come across as someone who was poking fun at the Scots and their football. I guess the Scottish public needed someone to blame for their international defeats, and I fitted the bill perfectly.

Jimmy Hill

FootballFunBlameSomeoneMedia

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

Jean Piaget

IntelligenceIntelligentWithout

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Jean Racine

HeartOthersNeverNobleMalice

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

Steve Sabol

InspirationalMusicFootballTheatre

Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.

Simon Callow

I AmPeopleMeNowActorPhones

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I'd be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

Trisha Yearwood

MusicGirlCountryNeverSinger

I've had a lot of girls reach out to me about struggling with body image. I've only been able to write back to a few of them, but I've been able to write and have correspondence with a few of them and really talk about what I think they should do or if I think they should ask for help.

Troian Bellisario

MeThinkReachHelpBodyBack

A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct 'individualized' treatment.

Rudolf Steiner

StrengthArtUnderstandingAttention

I am a goofy person, really. That's where my energy goes, that's how I live my life. The goof gene is very strong inside me, really.

Devon Bostick

LifeLiveI AmMeEnergyStrong

Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men.

Christian McKay

MenKingLawyerNowManagerHorses

I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person.

Brian McBride

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When I used to see things in the newspapers, going onto the pitch was the best way to get away from it.

Ashley Cole

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