John Mellencamp | teacher
Do I think it’s OK to fight authority as long as you’re only talking about the high school teacher? No.
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Jean Rostand | teacher
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
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Haruki Murakami | teacher
I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
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Maya Lin | teacher
I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
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Robert Duvall | teacher
I’ve always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it’s like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That’s the actor’s craft – using yourself to create a character.
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Gus Van Sant | teacher
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the ‘Village Voice’ and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.
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William Glasser | teacher
Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
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