Jim Parsons Quotes
When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
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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 remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie 'Annie.' Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite.
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.
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I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
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During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.
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Teachers need time to engage with colleagues - whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferring. They need a voice in school decisions and to be trusted as professionals.
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The money it would cost to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy.
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The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
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I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell.
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My rookie year, I was very immature.
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When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.
