When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy setting, we are acknowledging that this educated guesswork, invention, fantasy underlie our treatment of the past and its peoples - and we are not claiming a right to do with them as we will.
I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.
My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.
You get educated by traveling.
My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.
I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.
I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.
Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.
I'm very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don't get to the philosophical side.
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.
My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.
An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.
Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.
I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
Over time, my students have gotten richer and more educated.
People will never stop having kids, and people will never stop spending money on them to make sure they're safe, healthy, and educated.
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated.
Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.
I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.
I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.
