James McBride
James McBride
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The important thing is for students to know that it's OK to fail. Failure teaches success you don't have to aim for law school or medical school as alternatives for living a full and useful life.
added art believe certainly children created digital picture pop portraits themselves
The children created pop art portraits of themselves by tracing over a digital picture on the computer. It certainly added something extra. At the end of the class, they couldn't believe that it was already playtime.
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Be kind to the living.
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First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
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I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.
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I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.
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I could have been, and may one day well be a high school English teacher, because I've been given so much I just feel like I have to give something back. The fact that some people consider my work to be good or strong, it's nice, but I know in my heart that if it's not coming - oftentimes it's probably not coming from the best place.
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I grew up in the church, and so I feel that God gave me certain things to do, and I'm lucky enough to kind of have figured those things out. I just don't want to die not having tried to help somebody else with what I know.
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Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
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My family is my career.