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I want to talk about my very first play, when I was in eighth grade. One day, my English teacher, Mrs. Baker, announced that we were going to read 'On Borrowed Time' out loud in class. I was a mediocre student; I was terrified that she was going to call on me, so I hid my head.
David Morse
Teacher
Time
Day
Me
Class
First
Hid
One Day
Out
Borrowed
About
Student
Head
Announced
Baker
Talk
She
Call
Read
Terrified
Were
Loud
Very
Grade
Going
Want
Eighth
Eighth Grade
English
English Teacher
Play
Mediocre
I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
Jack Ma
Teacher
School
Before
Flunked
Later
Considered
Worst
High
City
High School
Exam
Student
Students
Federation
Studying
Became
Accepted
Times
Elected
Teachers
English
English Teacher
Chairman
Two
University
In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
Aaron Lazar
Love
Teacher
Great
Me
Writing
School
Analysis
Mine
Critical
High
Introduced
High School
Shakespeare
Poetry
Write
How
Essays
Taught
Then
Skill
Painful
English
English Teacher
Novels
Now
One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.
Ally Condie
Teacher
Time
Good
Guitar
Husband
Economics
Met
Side
Analytical
Addition
One Of The Things
About
Poetry
He
Stuff
Liked
Wrote
Him
Always
Go
His
Mathematical
Lots
Very
Decided
English
English Teacher
Things
Played
By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.
Andrea Barrett
Teacher
Class
Writing
School
Year
Think
Out
High
Would
Fabulous
High School
Horrible
Someday
Something
Student
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
Although
Go
Junior
Junior High
Did
Just
Afterwards
Might
Then
Skip
English
English Teacher
Her
Actually
Started
I still don't know what I'm going to be. I love acting. I would love to be an English teacher. I would love to be a housewife and have a chateau in the South of France, I would love to be a singer that travels to cafes around different towns.
Bethany Joy Lenz
Love
Teacher
France
Would
Towns
Know
Singer
Housewife
Around
Still
South
Going
Different
Acting
English
English Teacher
Travels
In terms of moments that pushed me toward becoming a writer... My parents, my wife, and my English teacher in the 8th grade were all hugely supportive at moments during my development as a writer that were critical, where I might have quit when things got too hard.
Blake Crouch
Teacher
Me
Wife
Parents
Too
Critical
Writer
Pushed
Development
Toward
Supportive
Terms
Becoming
Got
Were
Hugely
Grade
Quit
Where
Might
Hard
English
Moments
English Teacher
Things
The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.
Charles J. Shields
Teacher
Business
School
Criticism
First
Carrying
Purchasing
Lighthearted
Sophomore
His
Article
Submitted
Urging
Whistle
English
English Teacher
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'
Craig Ferguson
Teacher
School
Word
Argument
Out
High
High School
Had
Dropped
Over
Huge
After
Meaning
Meaning Of
English
English Teacher
Iggy Pop is a pure Michigan product - gritty, smart, but not afraid of looking stupid or foolish. His father was once a high school English teacher. I love Iggy as a physical entity, sinewy, twisty - even in old age - an embodiment of rock and roll history.
David Means
Love
Teacher
History
Age
School
Smart
Old
Father
Pure
Looking
Stupid
Old Age
Gritty
Once
High
Embodiment
Physical
High School
Entity
Foolish
Rock
Rock And Roll
His
Michigan
Roll
Afraid
Pop
Iggy
Product
English
English Teacher
Even
My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.
Jim Parrack
Teacher
Army
Mother
Father
Software
Retired
Salesman
Banking
English
Captain
English Teacher
I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.
John Krasinski
Teacher
Know
Being
Where
Planned
English
English Teacher
I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.
John Krasinski
Teacher
Side
Patches
Jackets
Wanted
English
English Teacher
I read 'the Hobbit' at the age when you're supposed to read it. I didn't read 'The Lord Of The Rings.' My father, who was an English teacher, advised me that once I had read 'the Hobbit,' that would be enough. I could then move on to Dostoyevsky.
Ken Stott
Teacher
Me
You
Age
Father
Move On
Enough
Once
Would
Would-Be
Rings
Could
Had
Supposed
Read
Advised
Lord
Lord Of The Rings
Move
Hobbit
Then
English
Who
English Teacher
I had originally planned to do musical theatre and be on Broadway, but then my love for poetry also set in. Once that happened, I became torn between a career as an English teacher or a music teacher.
Khalid
Love
Teacher
Music
Theatre
Once
Musical
Broadway
Musical Theatre
Torn
Poetry
Had
Between
Also
Became
Happened
Then
Planned
English
English Teacher
Originally
Career
Set
I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.
Matthew Quick
Teacher
Time
You
Writing
School
Job
Thought
Parents
Lost
Down
High
Able
High School
Like
Real
Doing
Were
Been
Real Job
Sell
Friends
Account
Get
Get A Real
Going
Bank
Bank Account
Quitting
After
Anything
Full
Full-Time
English
English Teacher
Basement
Zero
When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.
Melvin Burgess
Teacher
Time
Me
Job
Made
Enthusiasm
Long
Animals
Long Time
Teenager
Books
Later
Collecting
Writer
Had
He
Read
Child
Wanted
Decide
Fantastic
Used
English
Who
English Teacher
Jersey
Founded
Her
Zoo
Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
Pat Boone
Teacher
Music
People
Become
Few
East
Through
Ironically
Did
Far
Far East
English
English Teacher
Million
Million People
When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only teacher in the school to have a top-of-the-range Porsche and all the trappings of success, so it was very interesting for me to find out how he did it. He was probably the wealthiest English teacher in the community.
Peter Jones
Success
Teacher
Me
School
Community
Out
Find
John
Someone
Only
He
How
Very
Did
Woodward
Interesting
Worked
English
Trappings
English Teacher
Porsche
Actually
I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom 'Friends.' Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch 'Friends.' I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I'm the lucky one.
RM
Teacher
Time
Myself
Thought
Parents
Victim
Back
Syndrome
Kids
Days
Like
Make
Korean
Friends
Sitcom
Taught
English
Lucky
English Teacher
Now
Watch
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.
Rob Delaney
Teacher
Crazy
Word
Wife
Hilarious
About
Shakespeare
Inventor
She
Notorious
English
Who
English Teacher
My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.
Robert Sean Leonard
Teacher
Sister
Brother
Policeman
Make
Hear
Versus
English
English Teacher
Ridiculous
I chose to be a maths teacher because I thought the marking would be easy. You'd just tick and cross, whereas if you're an English teacher, you've got to read essays. Then they said I had to analyse the methodology. It takes an eternity, it's insane!
Romesh Ranganathan
Teacher
You
Thought
Analyse
Marking
Insane
Would
Would-Be
Easy
Cross
Had
Takes
Tick
Read
Because
Said
Got
Methodology
Maths
Essays
Just
Whereas
Eternity
Then
English
English Teacher
Chose
I love to read. I'm still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read.
Rooney Mara
Love
Teacher
Me
Books
Pen
Tells
He
Read
Still
English
English Teacher
Pals
My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Teacher
Me
Class
Sometimes
Mother
Reading
Before
Too
Would
India
Bored
More
Only
Fact
Had
Like
She
Read
Hindi
Came
Were
Been
Quickly
Than
Get
Taught
Teachers
Teaching
English
English Teacher
Early
Consequence
My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.
Santiago Cabrera
Teacher
Me
Director
Sports
Gave
Kind
My Friend
Small
Could
Lead
Part
Lead Role
Parts
Said
Always
Go
Were
Friend
Up
Role
Just
Loved
Which
Scripts
Mozart
Then
English
English Teacher
Plays
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