Piper Perabo Quotes
I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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You put high heels on and you change.
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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.
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We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
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When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.
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Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.
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It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.
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I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
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Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.
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Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.
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National diplomacy strategies are usually focused on promoting one's interests against others' interests. By emphasizing the global 'we' rather than the national 'I' in the climate change debate, COP 21 proved to be a case in point for a change of lenses.
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'What the Republicans have been doing is an insult to America. ...These are foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging neanderthals.' Questioned, 'Why are you name-calling?' 'I didn't call names, what I said is true.'
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I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.
