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I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces. -- Anne Rice
I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment. -- James Levine
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. -- Gus Van Sant
My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father. -- Jeff Bridges
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors. -- Jay McInerney
I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic. -- Kevin Spacey
I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice. -- Renee Olstead
Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years. -- Arne Duncan
I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me. -- Sanford I. Weill
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd. -- Roger Ebert
Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck. -- Ellen McLaughlin
Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice. -- Lauren Conrad
In every role that I do - whether I'm a teacher, actor or mentor - I do it with total dedication and as much honesty as I feel is required because there's no alternative to honesty and hard work. -- Anupam Kher
I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts. -- Melissa Rauch
San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar. -- Gus Van Sant
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece. -- Abraham Verghese
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors. -- Daniel Goleman
I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back. -- Steve Harvey
And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak. -- Dave Winfield
Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student. -- Parker J. Palmer
Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow. -- Michael Meade

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