#homework

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it. ↗

— Tony Scott

#doing #few #homework #lot #talk

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework. ↗

— Vanna White

#cookies #full-time #homework #i #i do

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#breaking-down-assignment #childhood #encouragement #homework #project

Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people. ↗

— Will Arnett

#because #bit #bore #felt #first

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#because #bored #channels #death #early

You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#homework #know #knowing #own #really

I think if you get asked to do this, then that's called doing your homework, and I try and do it. ↗

— Mark Harmon

#called #doing #get #homework #i

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#born #childhood #choice #could #drawers

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#because #college #come #cry #got

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#dancing #developed #did #dreamed #fantasy