"I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York."
"I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something."
"I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math."
"I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence."
"If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel, ' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No."
"I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning."
"In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar."
"As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic."
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