“I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little juke joints not far from where I lived, and I used to go there. They wouldn't let me play inside, but I could sit outside on the weekends, when it wasn't raining or something.” LittlesSelfPlayShowsUsedNightTaughtRainLet MeWeekendJointsSelf Taught Author:B. B. King
“Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The Bear." That poem impressed me so much that I memorized it. I used it for years when I taught in prisons. It's a powerful extended metaphor for what the writing life is really all about. It's a uniquely powerful poem about self-transformation, and that's what we're asking, really, beyond even our objection to the war. We're asking people to look at themselves and think about what might be possible with a little self-transformation.” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsFirstsLooksLittlesWarSelfBigsMightLife IsUsedVoicePowerfulWonderfulTaughtBearsFirst TimeTransformationAskingPrisonMetaphorImpressedWriting LifeHollowObjectionsSelf Transformation Author:Sam Hamill
“Ridiculously - fortunately - my first job was with Dustin Hoffman. I had a little part in this movie called Tootsie. And he taught me how to watch dailies. That it was very important.” FirstsLittlesImportantJobsWatchesTaught Author:Geena Davis
“I really did feel like I was surrounded by family members. I didn't have a dad, and I remember there were all these guys - in the old days, there were no women, except a makeup artist or, occasionally, a script supervisor. So there were just guys who taught me how to, you know, whittle wood, or how to pull focus, and what the camera was doing. And if I was being bratty, they'd sit me down and tell me. There were lots of rules about not being late and making sure that you didn't spill anything. So it felt a little bit like I was in a family.” IfsKnowsFeelsLittlesRememberArtistGuyFeltBitsFocusTaughtDadMembersLateLittle BitDown AndCamerasScriptsWoodsMakeupOld DaysSpillsFamily MembersSupervisorsMakeup Artist Author:Jodie Foster
“I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are taught geography.” PeopleLittlesFiveTaughtTestsGeography Author:Ayshay
“I love to watch my daughter. At twenty-two months, that little soul is developing at a rate I will never understand. She's kind of taught me that growth and expansion are a person's natural state and inclination.” KindLittlesPersonsTwoSoulStatesGrowthNaturalWatchesTaughtMonthsDaughterTwentiesRateDevelopingMy DaughterExpansionInclinationTwo MonthsTwenty Two Author:Daniel Gillies
“I started teaching yoga in 1974 in Colorado, I was living in Winter Park, and I started teaching skiers. At that point I was teaching more of the Sivananda system and just pushing it up a little bit to make it a little more rajasic a little more active, a little more physical. People would come, and feel great, and by the time I left Colorado in 1980 I'd taught pretty much everyone in town - the ski patrol, ski instructors, the bar owners.” PeopleFeelsLittlesLeftBitsTeachingTaughtLittle BitYogaTownsWinterActiveBarsParksOwnersPushingSkisColoradoInstructorsSkiersPushing It Author:Beryl Bender Birch
“The earliest issue I can remember going through was body image issues. I was a chubby little kid and I got made fun of for it. I dealt with horrible, horrible self esteem issues, and I still struggle with that. I think it's what taught me a lot of empathy and compassion, though, but there are those days where I look in the mirror and I still see twelve year old fat Sara.” ThinkingYearsLooksLittlesMadeStillsI CanSelfBodyKidsRememberFunCompassionStruggleIssuesSelf EsteemTaughtEmpathyMirrorsHorribleFatsEsteemTwelveLittle KidBody ImageCompassion And EmpathySelf Esteem Issues Author:Sara Bareilles
“We wound up taking my enterprise inside marketing, branding, management, finances. We went in there [Sisterhood of Hip Hop show] and taught them a little bit about everything in hopes of them being able to have some takeaways that they'd be able to use in the future for their own careers. And I think we were pretty successful.” ThinkingLittlesUseShowsAbleBitsCareersSuccessfulTaughtLittle BitManagementMarketingHip HopWoundsFinanceHipsEnterpriseHopsBrandingSisterhoodTakeaways Author:MC Lyte
“Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make movies, shorts with my friends back in Brooklyn, and one of those books was How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime which is Roger's autobiography. After reading that, I realized that oh my God, this guy is behind all my favorite Pam Grier movies. Oh my God, he made the Vincent Price Poe films that ran on television when I was little. He did Grand Theft Auto. He made Death Race 2000.” LittlesMadeBookSchoolFilmGuyReadingLostRaceBehindsTelevisionTaughtHundredMy FriendsHollywoodMy FavoriteI RealizedRanCollectionsAutobiographyThis GuyTheftBrooklynRogerDimesShortsFilm SchoolDeath RaceGrand Theft Auto Author:Alex Stapleton
“Now many things are beginning to come out and it was truly a reality to me when I went to Africa, to Guinea. The little things that had been taught to me about the African people, that they were "heathens," "savages," and they were just downright stupid people. But when I got to Guinea, we were greeted by the Government of Guinea, which is Black People - and we stayed at a place that was the government building, because we were the guests of the Government.” PeopleLittlesRealityGovernmentBlackStupidBuildingTaughtLittle ThingsBlack PeopleGuestsSavagesStupid PeopleHeathenGuinea Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“I was always taught that anybody and everything is worth spending time and interest on and there's no reason to pass over anything. So it led me in a route that was just hyper awareness of human beings and care and love. So it's made me at least more open to trying anything, doing everything and experiencing all that I can in this little bit of life that we have.” TryingHumansLittlesMadeI CanReasonCareBitsInterestHuman BeingsAwarenessTaughtLittle BitAnd LoveSpendingNo ReasonRoutesSpending TimeHyper Author:Charlie Barnett
“[Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't worry about any of that stuff. You know, write a poem where you mention three colors and make it five lines - or he would just give them, you know, little strategies. And, man, they wrote some great poems.” KnowsMenGivingWritingChildrenLittlesSchoolThreeStuffLinesCitiesWorryFiveNew YorkTaughtColorStrategyNew York CityPublic SchoolRhymingKenneth Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Progressives are concerned about reports of Muslim students feeling 'marginalized' and discriminated against after the shooting massacre by an Islamic terrorist in Orlando, but there is little concern that - for years - students in the United States have been taught to dislike their country.” YearsLittlesHas BeensCountryStatesFeelingsUnitedUnited StatesStudentsTaughtConcernConcernedTerroristShootingIslamicReportsDislikeMassacresMarginalizedOrlando Author:Rush Limbaugh