School Quotes
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When I was a junior in college I moved to New York and went to this performance school the Experimental Theatre Wing. We had singing class and again, some of the other students would cry when I was singing, and I really didn't know why. I started to realize that there was something in the tone of my voice that was evocative for them.
Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
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'Never change' is the thing that probably high school students have written in each other's yearbooks for time immemorial. They think that command is possible!
Jane Hamilton
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I kept on telling my parents school wasn't for me. And they were like, 'No you need to go university.'
KSI
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I was really good at Latin at school, and because I was good at it, I got more interested and got better at it.
Mary Beard
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I studied law, I got an alright degree, and then I was going to go and do something called an LPC, which is a Legal Practice Course, which qualifies you as a lawyer. But I didn't end up doing it, because I went to drama school instead.
Adeel Akhtar
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My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.
Allegra Versace
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At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus. It's the one time in my life where I don't have to shout to be heard.
Emun Elliott
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I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.
Dorothy Malone
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High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
Douglas Coupland
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When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me.
Mary Frann
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I went through elementary school being bullied and teased. I remember someone - I can't recall his name, but I can see his face - who decided on the school bus, when I was ten or eleven, to call me "Percy." That was somehow supposed to connect to the fact that I wasn't very athletic. I was, in fact, also not very coordinated. I was not very masculine, by the standards of ten-year-olds. I remember being on the school bus and everyone chanting, "Percy! Percy! Percy!" at me.
Andrew Solomon
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I went to Baltimore School of the Arts, which is known for discovering Tupac and Jada Pinkett-Smith.
Bresha Webb
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I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.
Condola Rashad
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After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.
Chris Rock
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Solitude is Wisdom’s school. Attend then the lessons of your own soul; become a pupil of the wise God within you, for by his tuitions alone shall you grow into the knowledge and stature of the deities. The seraphs descend from heaven, in the solitudes of meditation, in the stillness of prayer.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.
C. S. Lewis
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I have a very fun husband. He's managed to hang on to every person he's known since grammar school.
Kathleen Kennedy
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I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.
Josh Turner
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We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either.
Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.
Adam McKay
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It's a democracy, and the reason why the conservative movement loses is because it believes that it is elite, that the smartest in its midst who have gone to the right schools and who have worked at the right think tanks and have the right opinions and the right friends can run it for the rest of America. That's why I'm a Tea Party adherent over a Republican or conservative establishment adherent.
Andrew Breitbart
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In middle school, I was boy crazy and it was the worst! I would always lose, too. I was more into the competition than the boy by the end of it! I just wanted to win!
Elizabeth Gillies
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I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.
Krista Tippett
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I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
Jet Li