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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I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.
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If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she's the teacher!
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.
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I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.
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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.
