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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 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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I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven. – 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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I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself. So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because its a whole different market – social media is so important. – Ben Vereen

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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. – Maya Lin

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I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true. – Krista Allen

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In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help. – William Glasser

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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. – John Berger

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A lot of people think Im that guy in Betsys Wedding, but Im not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally. – Anthony LaPaglia

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A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of societys resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization. – Wilhelm Dilthey

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If I had my career over again? Maybe Id say to myself, speed it up a little. – Jimmy Stewart

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