A Quote by Michael Heizer

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

Michael Heizer

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Michael Heizer
American - Artist
Born: 1944

I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

Michael Heizer

I come from an academic background, and I have a genuine interest in social change.

Amanda Seales

I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations.

Emma Donoghue

Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.

Michael Hirst

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

Sarah Vowell

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

Kerry Washington

I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels.

Greg Rucka

Merit should count more than academic background.

Lee Myung-bak

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Paul Giamatti

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

Stanley Fish

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

P. J. Harvey

When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.'

Jonah Hill

There's actually a wonderful quote from Stanley Fish, who is sometimes very polemical and with whom I don't always agree. He writes, "Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right."