Barry Zito Quotes
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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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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I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
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As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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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.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.
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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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Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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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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Music that I really love and believe in and think is extraordinarily honest and beautiful doesn't always become popular. (Oct, 1994 interview).
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I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.
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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school.
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Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.
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I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.
