“A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.” LooksStillsSchoolResultsNovelProgressHeardChangedHigh SchoolHollywoodElectionProducersLife ChangingScreenwritersDrawersWishbones Author:Tom Perrotta
“When I was 14 I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.” AgeSchoolUsedThreeChangedWallMonthsLeavingCrossingsCalendarsThree MonthsDays Off Author:Mark E. Smith
“My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.” IfsYearsSchoolGuyFoundChangedDadEasierArmyMovedMy DadNew FriendsFunny Guy Author:Jason Gann
“To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have changed themselves into parvenus who have to secure their position vis-a-vis the masses.” MeanSchoolLeaderPositionChangedDemandMassPressesDemocratSecureOld School Author:Oswald Spengler
“I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.” IfsWaySchoolFilmJusticeChangedTrackDefenseLawyerJustice SystemFilm School Author:Matthew McConaughey
“I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now.” PeopleShouldCountrySchoolPayEconomicChangedBecomingHappeningsIdealsPressureRadicalSchoolingBecoming MorePrivate School Author:Ezra Miller
“I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had a brother who was into Kerouac and he gave me On The Road to read when I was 12 years old. That's still been a big influence.” YearsStillsBigsSchoolViewsInfluenceHavensChangedBrotherOld ManMentalityI Haven't Changed Author:David Bowie
“Back when I was in high school, I came out onstage with my guitar and had four guys playing behind me. We were just playing a dance, but I was standing in front of an audience rocking out. I'm still rocking out like when I was a kid. I haven't changed.” StillsKidsSchoolGuyBehindsAudienceFourFrontsHavensChangedHigh SchoolStandingGuitarBack WhenI Haven't ChangedRocking Out Author:Dion DiMucci
“Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.” PeopleIfsWayYearsSchoolActorsActingGenerationsNew YorkChangedGeniusYears AgoDeanBrando Author:Martin Sheen
“I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen--but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!” KnowsBookSchoolLanguageResultsClassBoysChangedEnglish LanguageEighteenPrivate School Book:Chips Off the Old Benchley Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley
“We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because if a parent is unhappy with what their child is being taught in school, they can go to that local school board or their state legislature, or their governor and get it changed.” IfsNeedsShouldChildrenStatesHappensSchoolParentLevelsPolicyChangedTaughtEducationalUnhappyLocalsReformBoardsGovernorsLegislatureCurriculumState LegislaturesSchool Board Author:Marco Rubio
“God opened my eyes to see Jesus for who He really was. After I trusted Christ, the Lord changed my entire perspective on everything. I started thinking about how I should relate to my parents and how I should approach school and even what it meant for the music I was writing.” ThinkingShouldWritingEyeSchoolJesusParentChristLordChangedPerspectiveApproachRelateTrusted Author:Trip Lee
“I guess my voice kind of changed in middle school. It was what it is now. I remember there was this boy who used to walk behind me and sing that song that goes, "Walk like a man, talk like a man" and I was devastated. So I learned that I can pick up my voice if I want to.” IfsMenWantKindI CanSchoolRememberUsedSongVoiceWalksBehindsBoysMiddleChangedPicksDevastatedMiddle School Author:Dianna Agron
“Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable.” ChildrenLongImportantHomeAgeSchoolAsksParentCareersChangedBeing A ParentAway From HomeEldestEldest Child Author:Cate Blanchett
“Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.” YearsBookSchoolNextChangedTenObsoleteSchool System Author:Thomas A. Edison
“I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.” ArtSchoolThreeWeekChangedCollegeFineMajorsTheaterPainterFine Arts Author:Dan Fogelberg
“I was rejected in school because I didn't look like the big-breasted, beautiful girls. I was awkward and sad. My mother always said, "Be original!" but I didn't understand until I changed to be like everyone else.” LooksSaidBigsSchoolBeautifulMotherGirlChangedOriginalsAwkwardRejectedBeautiful Girl Author:Sandra Bullock
“One thing that's interesting is that whenever something starts, like the school year when you were a kid, it feels like such a significantly huge time in your life and how much life has changed. What's surprising is how quickly it's going by.” FeelsYearsKidsSchoolInterestingOne ThingChangedHugeSurprisingLife Has ChangedSchool Years Author:Donal Logue
“If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?” IfsWantChildrenWould BeSchoolEnjoyDarkChangedColorSkinsVoteAvailableOfficialsRestaurantsLunchDelayPublic SchoolPublic OfficialsFree Life Author:John F. Kennedy
“With Submarine, when I came out of school, people were so lovely and supportive. And you don't get that experience very often. It felt like a family on-set. So Submarine changed so much for me.” PeopleSchoolFeltChangedLovelySupportiveSubmarines Author:Yasmin Paige
“John Hughes made a certain type of high school movie, and then it stayed static for 30 years. The only thing that changed was that maybe it was found footage or maybe it's a little snarkier, but the actual language that kids live in today, like with texting, motion graphics, the internet and that whole hashtag culture doesn't exist in movies today. It's left on the floor.” YearsLittlesMadeWholeKidsTodaySchoolCertainCultureFoundLeftLanguageChangedTypeInternetHigh SchoolStaticTextingHashtagsHigh School Movie Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.” ThinkingYearsSchoolChangedPersonality Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg
“We didn't educate women, because the leaders then didn't think they were educable. That changed when a shortage of teachers developed, because men didn't get paid enough to teach school. Then men, who held the positions of power, sent women to teachers' colleges.” ThinkingMenEnoughSchoolLeaderTeachTeacherPositionChangedCollegePaidEducateShortagePosition Of Power Author:John Shelby Spong
“A generation earlier, I think that somebody from my background probably would not have felt fully comfortable at a college like Princeton. But, by the time I graduated from high school, things had changed.” ThinkingSchoolFeltGenerationsChangedCollegeComfortableHigh SchoolBackgroundsPrinceton Author:Samuel Alito
“I changed my major to English literature, which was on the advice of my father. I finally said, "You know, Dad, to heck with it: I'm just going to be an actor. But I'm going to go to school." And he said, "Well, if you're going to go to school, then major in English literature. Those are the tools you are going to be working with as a man who's going to be acting in English, one would assume."” IfsKnowsMenWellsSaidSchoolActorsFatherLiteratureActingAdviceChangedDadMajorsToolsAssumingEnglish Literature Author:Keith Carradine
“As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.” PeopleWorldLoveKindAgeSchoolChristianTurnsLeftChurchJusticeChangedNeededGayHigh SchoolInjusticeLabelsTeenagerCategoriesGood PeopleIgnoredLiedPeace And JusticeContainersSortingBeing LiedGreat ChristianGay FriendInjustice In The World Author:Nadia Bolz-Weber
“It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.” ArtSchoolChangedStudentsAmountMajorityMuseumsDisgustingThis SocietyArt School Author:Kiki Smith
“By the way, I'm not sure the managing director who was 50 in 2005 understood that the job had changed - that when he or she came out of school in 1986, that it was different. How would they know? We've got to admit that.” KnowsWayDifferentSchoolJobsChangedDirectorsUnderstoodNot Sure Author:Ken Moelis
“I think the Arab awakening has changed everything and I think a lot will depend on what people there ask of us, may be nothing, it may be a lot. I think that really depends how they find their voice and what they see as their real interest, and hopefully that would be for more schools and not more tanks.” PeopleThinkingMayRealWould BeSchoolAsksVoiceInterestChangedDependsAwakeningHopefullyTanks Author:Thomas Friedman
“I think the mild Aspergers have always been there. You see, Asperger's diagnosis did not become common in the U.S. until the early '90s. And an Aspergers has more or less normal speech development and they've always been here, that hasn't changed. I can think back to when I was in high school, this is 40 years ago, I could name kids in my high school class and college class that, today, would be diagnosed as Aspergers.” ThinkingYearsI CanWould BeKidsTodaySchoolNamesCommonClassChangedCollegeDevelopmentSpeechNormalHigh SchoolYears AgoDiagnosisAspergersHigh School Class Author:Temple Grandin
“The music business has changed so much. Collaborations are all over the Internet. The young people are keeping the old school alive. A lot of them run out of ideas so they grab these songs that we've had out for 50 years and bringing them back and making people rich again. That's a nice thing. A lot of artists don't have incomes after a certain time in their life because nobody's is buying the songs. This revival of their music has taken a lot of writers out of the poor house.” PeopleYearsIdeasRunningSchoolYoungArtistCertainSongHousePoorRichTakenNiceAliveChangedInternetIncomeBuyingCollaborationRevivalMusic BusinessNice ThingsOld School Author:Dutch Robinson