Alafair Burke Quotes

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

My school is very good and quite understanding and know I have to take time off for interviews or writers' festivals.

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

I always hated school.

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.

Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're trying to be the best you can possibly be, then you'll be putting that pressure on yourself.

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.

I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.

I suppose, in a way, one could say I may be less interested in my career than the audience is. Not to mean that I'm disinterested in my career, but I don't see it in terms of one stepping stone or, 'Now I'm going to go into my blue phase,' or what have you.

I definitely want to get more active in the film world. My experiences I've had thus far have been really fun, and I definitely feel my best is yet to come in that world.

I'm very career-driven, so my focus and my energy has been into that.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others.

I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.

I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.

I'm not really too focused on where I get drafted. It's what I do after I get drafted.

I'm very much focused on my career.

I'm very career-minded.

Oh my goodness, do I aspire to be like Gisele? I just turned 23, I'm enjoying being young and focusing on my career.

I'm so much more gratified by my life now that I have an expertise. I wake up every day thinking about a fairly small set of scientific questions all related to the psychology of achievement, and I'll never get bored of those questions. That's something I couldn't say to you when I was 22 or 25 or probably even 31.

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.

Hey, Carlos," the Professor says when he walks in. "How was REACH?" "It sucked." "Can you be more specific?" my guardian asks. "It really sucked," I elaborate, sarcasm dripping from every word.