School Quotes
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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
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I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and I suffered from dyslexia quite badly, but they had a very good department there which specialised in it.
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Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.
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I've been recognized a couple times. I get people staring at me, and I think in their heads they're thinking, 'How do I know her? Did I go to high school with her?' I think it's not registering yet.
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I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten.
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As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.
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I went to high school in the highlands of Scotland.
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I didn't act in college, per se, because I didn't want an acting degree. I don't know what you do with that degree. When I was 16, I saw 'Usual Suspects,' and I wanted to be a director as well. So I thought I should go to school for directing and producing, something I knew nothing about.
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Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.
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I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.
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School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.
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There were times when I was terrified to go to school because it felt like a jail sentence.
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You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.
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My mother and I lived in an apartment complex in a neighborhood. So there was a gaggle of kids. Every day after school, we'd just meet up in a field, and some game would be chosen, Wiffle ball or tag, and you'd play that until the streetlights came on.
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It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries.
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In high school, I decided that all of my female friends were stupid and traded them for guy friends. I loved horror movies and heavy metal and used these interests to become a 'guys' girl.'
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I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
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We've long believed teachers know best what their students need to succeed, and that includes the creation of healthy, supportive school communities.
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All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.
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Everyone is insecure, especially in high school.
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I played a lot of character parts in school.
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You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.
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We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.
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I grew up around a whole bunch of girls, and one thing I realized is what they had on their plate was very different than what I had on mine. The things girls are made to be responsible for is a heavy burden - take care of your younger siblings, do good in school, have some extracurriculars. The pressure is intense.
