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I think my parents were happy that Id gone to university and gotte

I think my parents were happy that Id gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, Well if acting doesnt work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something. Fortunately, the acting worked out. – Derek Jacobi

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I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination. – Derek Jacobi

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Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to peoples knowledge of those characters. – Derek Jacobi

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Knowledge
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Ultimately its a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react. – Derek Jacobi

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Im an unemployed teacher right now and Im looking for a place to teach. – Bobby Knight

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Adele Adkins retro-soul debut, 19, was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules. – Will Hermes

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I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York. – Judy Collins

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Im glad I was a teacher. – John Wooden

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At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish. – Thai Proverb

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Dios tarda pero no olvida — God delays but doesnt forget. – Proverb

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I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet Im still playing places for kids. – Juliana Hatfield

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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. – Alvin Toffler

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