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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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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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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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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You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'
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I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'
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Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
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But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni - more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.
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Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
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I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.
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Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.
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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.
