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I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher. -- Stephen Mangan
I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school. -- Keisha Castle-Hughes
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government. -- Olivia De Havilland
Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced. -- John Hurt
I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part. -- Jacqueline Bisset
I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades. -- Tyler Hilton
I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone. -- Temple Grandin
Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval. -- Caroline Knapp
I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously. -- Roz Chast
My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener. -- Curtis Mayfield
I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself. -- Eddie Van Halen
I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. -- Jacqueline Bisset
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Most of my teachers didn't like me. I didn't get good grades because I pretty much lived at the public access studio. I tried to be the class clown, so I spent a lot of time in detention. -- Trevor Moore
I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me. -- Yvonne Strahovski
When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice. -- Cecilia Bartoli
Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, 'You sure write well.' And I've had good penmanship until this day. She was the only one who ever said anything nice to me. That's the kind of motivation that students need. -- Andrew Young
My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker. -- Garry Hynes
I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it. -- Brian Jacques
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material, -- Eric Mazur
I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal. -- Jesse Stuart
I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him. -- Mikhail Saakashvili

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