When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere. Wendy Kopp Read Quote
If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We have processes in our hands that allow us to create structures at all scales that at one point we couldn’t even have dreamed of. Michael Hansmeyer Read Quote
But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood. Bernice Weissbourd Read Quote
I never fit in as a kid. I always felt that there was something different about me. Anya Taylor-Joy Read Quote
When you’re still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant – Gene Hackman is another – at being and allowing the audience to just do the work. Gabriel Byrne Read Quote
I want to do a romantic comedy that nobody thought I could do. And then do a comedy with Dan Aykroyd that is totally different from ‘The Blues Brothers.’ I’m a comic actor, but I’m an actor, too. John Belushi Read Quote
The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don’t really have a plan. Fiona Apple Read Quote
In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis. Herbert A. Simon Read Quote