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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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality.
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Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?
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I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
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You have to be a strong advocate of the shows you believe in. Sometimes those skills are very similar to agenting.
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I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.
