Kevin McCarthy Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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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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I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.
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I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
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If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
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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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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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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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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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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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We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.
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I've been wanting kids for 10 years. I'd love to adopt, have them naturally - all of it. I want, like, 15.
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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
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If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart attack, the doctor said, 'Try to make her laugh.' And that was the first time I tried to make anyone laugh.
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I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.
