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"I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button."

Francis Ford Coppola on Teacher

More quotes about Teacher

  • "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

    Khalil Gibran on Teacher

  • "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

    Albert Einstein on Teacher

  • "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

    Confucius on Teacher

  • "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

    Swami Vivekananda on Teacher

  • "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

    John Steinbeck on Teacher

More quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

  • "It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again."

  • "I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing."

  • "Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature."

  • "I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can."

  • "I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button."

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