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"But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia."
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"The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there."
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Personal Development
"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
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Personal Development
"It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought."
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Personal Development
"Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it."
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Personal Development
"They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right."
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Personal Development
"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."
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Personal Development
"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."
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Personal Development
"But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia."
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Personal Development
"I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me."
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"Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught."
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"They took my mother's stomach out six months ago."
Family
"Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people."
People
"So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas."
Work
"And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students."
Work
"But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia."
Kids
"It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent."
Family
"People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange."
People
"Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic."
Description
"You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher."
Attention
"The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before."
Work
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