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Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.

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William Butler Yeats
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Category: Education

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.
  • 2. Not even old age knows how to love death.
  • 3. Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems in my opinion to characterize our age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time I don't need holidays I just stop working.
  • 2. I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that no matter where.
  • 3. My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman with such an open heart. It's a real hard line and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

3 Anger

  • 1. My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing – all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.
  • 2. I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.
  • 3. Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.
  • 2. And currently there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics Australian Federation my 50th Birthday and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.
  • 3. We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970 when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

5 Architecture

  • 1. They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
  • 2. The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
  • 3. My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
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