Christa B. Allen Quotes

I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.

Christa B. Allen

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• When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Writing
  • School
  • Present

• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • War
  • Civil War

• I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

  

  Idris Elba
  • School
  • Bad
  • Never

• Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Opportunity
  • Marketing
  • Never Forget

• In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, 'It's a hobby. Whatever.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • School
  • Career
  • Community

• We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • School
  • Retirement

• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Happy
  • College

• It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy's school in D.C. There were one or two teachers that I had the hots for, but never fully expressed my feelings because my aunt was always watching.

  

  Ian Harding
  • School
  • High
  • Boy

• I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Remain

• 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.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • inspirational

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

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • School
  • Feeling

• There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Hate
  • Wish
  • Period

• There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her. In other words, if a young man or a young woman has no opportunity of getting married, and they live faithful lives up to the time of their death, they will have all the blessings, exaltation, and glory that any man or woman will have who had this opportunity and improved it. But if they think marshmallows and sweet potatoes are delicious, they're going to burn. That is sure and positive.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Myself
  • Goals
  • Season

• You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Football

• I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.

  

  Christa B. Allen
  • School
  • Opportunity