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 did play Jesus in 'Godspell,' in high school, because I guess I'm a nerd.
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One of the most fantastic experiences I ever had was as a decathlete. I finished fifth in the nation my senior year of high school. I had no training or nothing.
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All we want is a confident dude to come straight up... maybe. Just walk up and say, 'Hey, what's up?' And start from there.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
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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.
