I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew.
Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.
So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.
I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.
And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.
I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.
As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.
