"I’ve also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it’s amazing how it concentrates their minds."
― Alexander McCall Smith
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― Alexander McCall Smith
More From Alexander McCall Smith
- "It’s through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others."
- "I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one."
- "My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we’ve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world."
More In Amazing
- "There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn’t know. But everyone’s really different. I’ve worked with women who I’ve never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I’ve worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing."― Kristen Stewart
- "I’ve performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven’t really been in downtown Detroit, but I’ve been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was."― Jordin Sparks
- "With the song ‘This Christmas’ I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they’ll be like ‘OK, he did his thing with that record.’ It’s like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic."― Chris Brown