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My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.


Eliza Dushku


#divorced #feminist #i #i was born #like

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.


Eliza Dushku


#boston #famous #found #go #i

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.


Umberto Eco


#attention #audience #because #book #capture

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#because #been #brown #certain #certain way

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.


Connie Francis


#english #grandmother #hired #hours #i

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.


James Joyce


#busy #centuries #enigmas #i #immortality

I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really liked that.


Mike Judge


#i #jerry #know #late #lewis

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.


Donald Kagan


#different #direction #experience #felt #history

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.


Simone Veil


#culture #instrument #manufacture #professors #their

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.


Sylvia Ashton-Warner


#i #i am #my own #own #professor






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