We are hoping to have at least one candidate from each district for the first class. So, if we could get seven to 10, we would feel really good about it.

This shortage is not just local, it is statewide and nationally as well.

Kids are our business. If we don't do what is right for our children, we are in trouble.

I remember I did a boxing class. I remember sparring one time, and the guy smacked me right in the nose, and I was just like, 'What is this? No. No. None of that.

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.

This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine leather, stained from chemicals. Each one has a body and is more than an image.