Laura Harrier Quotes
I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.
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I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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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!'
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
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I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
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My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.
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High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.
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At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.
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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.
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I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is.
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If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?
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All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.
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Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.
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I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.
