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"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
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"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel."
Travel
"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
Poverty
"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
Curriculum
"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
Class
"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
Parents
"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
Books
"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
Parents
"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
Work
"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
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"I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did."
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