Allison Silverman Quotes

In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.

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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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• 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.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
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• 'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.

  

  Caitlin Hale
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• When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'

  

  Young Thug
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• I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.

  

  Naomie Harris
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• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
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• When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• My son, Sanjay, and I discuss a lot of things. Like, he gives me feedback on my films and what his friends say at school.

  

  Vijay
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• I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

  

  Ed O'Neill
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• To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.

  

  Don Rickles
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• It was always so nice to step away from figure skating and school with hockey. To this day I'm still a huge fan.

  

  Charlie White
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• Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
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• My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.

  

  Brendan Coyle
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• I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

  

  Janis Ian
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• Throughout elementary and middle school, I was used to hearing other words: Smart. Studious. Well-spoken. Well-read. They became pillars of my self-confidence, enabling me to build myself up on what I contributed rather than what I looked like.

  

  Janet Mock
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• Whatever kind of movie it is, you're going to be more into it when you care more about the drama, or you'll have a better laugh if you feel like you know the people better.

  

  Luke Wilson
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• The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
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• I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

  

  Augusten Burroughs
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• I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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• How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony with the ups and downs of those notes. What kind of notes both elevate and cast down, exalt and crush?

  

  Yann Martel
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• In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.

  

  Allison Silverman
  • School
  • Forensics