Sara Canning Quotes
I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
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I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
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I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.
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I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
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It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
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The time during bombings was definitely difficult for everyone. My parents, they really protected me from it, and we came through together.
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We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.
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It's about maintaining balance. Plan better, be organised. I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?
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I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.
