Wendy Kopp Quotes

Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.

Wendy Kopp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 29, 1967

Topics

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The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

John Dyer

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Political cartoonists get hung up on daily deadlines and the front page. The worst thing you can do is open up the newspaper and ask, 'What's funny about this?'

Jeff MacNelly

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I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.

Michael J. Fox

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Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.

Dickey Betts

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I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.

Chester Brown

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I think my advice to other actors would be to get in classes. Get out in front of people. Put up scenes in front of your peers.

Chelsea Kane

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You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

Annie Dillard

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I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.

Piers Anthony

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The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.

Philip Kerr

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I know the world is pretty intense, but in my opinion, there's nothing more perilous than being a teenager and watching a raunchy comedy with your parents.

Phoebe Robinson

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In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so brightly lit that you can read a book after dark; in other places across our global body, there are blackouts and curfews every night.

Pico Iyer

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