#student

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#another #answer #direct #direction #films

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#close #computer #every #five #ideal

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#completely #concentration #did #good #good student

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#graduate #graduate student #harvard #history #i

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#active #bottom #bottom line #by the time #get

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#absolute #against #characters #enough #i

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible. ↗

— John Astin

#bible #his #many #poe #read

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#american #american music #band #because #got

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#had #i #lousy #lucky #me

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#had #i #immediately #me #out