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When I was writing The Abstinence Teacher, I really tried to immer

When I was writing The Abstinence Teacher, I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. – Tom Perrotta

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I read The Great Gatsby in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love. – Tom Perrotta

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I dont really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when Im writing. The two go together – Im interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes. – Tom Perrotta

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Ive been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade. – Tom Perrotta

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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher. – Antonio Tabucchi

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Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls. – Ann Richards

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Im embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little. – Phil McGraw

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I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher. – Connie Britton

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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place — service — social service — the ants creed, the bees creed. – John Galsworthy

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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. – Mother Teresa

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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. – Walter Scott

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I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things. – Bryan Cranston

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