The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.
The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
I have a really good relationship with Focus Features; we had a wonderful time working together on 'Sin Nombre.'
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
I've learned that guns are exceptionally challenging to use effectively, with a power that must be respected. But mostly what I've learned is that they're a lot of fun, and dangerously appealing to an active imagination.
