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What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them? ”
Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings. ”
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me. ”
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it. ”
Germany, Austria, Switzerland - they have vocational training that's aligned to the needs of business and don't have youth unemployment problems. ”
Education reforms must be the priority for governments. ”
I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite far to satisfy my curiosity. ”
My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own. ”
I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love. ”
Countries around the world have their own immigration laws and methods of dealing with a recurring theme: desperate people searching for peace from volatile parts of the world. And nations everywhere thrive and prosper from the contributions of immigrants and the children of immigrants - including right here in the U.S. ”