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“I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a story, and we were supposed to finish it. I remember liking that. But I didn't think about deciding to become a writer until high school at about the age of 16.”

Thinking Giving Writing Stories Age School Remember High School Grades Fourth Fifth Fifth Grade

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“Most of the girls I know are from my school. I've gone to school with the same people since fourth grade, so I can't wait to go to a place where I don't know anybody.”

People Knows I Can School Girl Waiting Gone Grades Fourth Fourth Grade

Author:Anton Yelchin

“My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"”

Persons Ideas Parent Grades Bad Grades

Author:Winona Ryder

“Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few years back, I switched out of composition and into creative writing so I could work with words.”

Writing Years Wanted Creative College Decided Grades Composer Composition Creative Writing Eighth Grade

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition.”

Wanted School Actors Acting Ambition Theater Starting Grades Consumed Siberia

Author:Andrey Zvyagintsev

“Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.”

Want Mind Children Littles Real School Language Teach Teacher Ought Program Grades Educate Foreign Language Grades In School

Author:David McCullough

“Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.”

Kids Young Levels Painting Singing Thirds Grades Third Grade

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was only an ingredient. I never thought to wonder about grades, just as I never thought to wonder what Tarzan might bench press. I found the closer I moved to sport, the closer I felt to science - and the closer I moved to adventure, the closer I felt to greatness.”

Might Found Felt Sports Wonder Saws Greatness Adventure Difficulty Moved Presses Grades Ingredients Climbing Benches

Author:Peter Croft

“Every time you're exposed to advertising in America you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution, and marketing of bullshit. High-quality, grade-A, prime-cut, pure American bullshit.”

Stills Country America Quality Cutting Pure Marketing Advertising Grades Prime Exposed Bullshit Distribution Profitable High Quality Packaging Profitable Business

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'”

Men Firsts Lasts Worst Lows Angel Curiosity Grades Sarcasm Sincerity Marvelous Unspeakable Unimaginable Nickels Firsts And Lasts

Book:What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

“You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.”

Ifs Children Ends Facts Care Reading Levels Thirds Importance Grades Third Grade

Author:Kamala Harris

“I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what you want to be," everyone [said] doctor, lawyer, [but] mine literally said rapper. I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a superstar, I wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform, I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away.”

“My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.”

Firsts School Fine High School Actresses Girlfriend Grades Grades In School Mares

Author:Val Kilmer

“I'm stuck in 7th grade & I just keep getting let back”

Stuck Grades

Author:Mariah Carey

“In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.”

Ifs Book Would Be Found Library Grades Shelves Doubted Seventh Grade

Author:Beverly Cleary

“Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I was in the fourth grade - the only American in my class - when our teacher wrote the words "America" and "Atomic Bomb" in white chalk on the blackboard. All forty Japanese children turned around to stare at me. My country had done something unforgivable and I had to take responsibility for it, all by myself. I desperately wanted to dig a hole under my desk, to escape my classmates' mute disbelief and never have to face them again.”

“In some ways I'm oddly traditional, I've been a serial monogamist since I was 12. I've always tried to work hard and get good grades and be a good person, but I feel like I've also always had a strange defiance of authority or the status quo, I've never understood why things always have to be just one way.”

Way Feels Persons Hard Strange Hard Work Authority Understood Traditional One Way Just One Grades Status Quo Good Person Defiance Serials Being A Good Person Good Grades

Author:Jennifer Westfeldt

“When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have to worry about numbers." I didn't think I was going to be famous or a star.”

Thinking Firsts Said Stars Numbers Worry Singers Grades Arithmetic

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten. Instead of saying, "See Spot run," we ought to say, "See the plant grow in the sun." We ought to explain what runs the weather in the third or fourth grade to start out with.”

Should Running Courses Grows Talking Sun Issues Ought Thirds Plant Weather Spots Grades Fourth Kindergarten Pedants Fourth Grade

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.”

Ifs Body Would Be Students Percent University Grades Asian Selected American Universities

Author:Paul Achleitner

“The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.”

May Made Successful Grades Success In Life Preparing Sixth Grade

Author:Herbert Hoover

“Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.”

Thinking Three Causes Stupid Grades Three Times Ninth Grade

Author:Eminem

“You know the Singaporean. He is a hard-working, industrious, rugged individual. Or we would not have made the grade. But let us also recognise that he is a champion grumbler.”

Knows Made Hard Individual Hard Work Champion Grades Recognise Industrious Rugged

Author:Mr. Lee

“How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.”

“I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.”

Knows Believe Hard Mother Christ Poor Dad My Dad Complaining Grades Fourth Fourth Grade

Author:Evander Holyfield

“I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.”

Wanted School Library Grades Riot Grades In School

Author:Bitsie Tulloch

“I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential.”

Said School Difficult Class Week Listening Quitting Cards Reports Grades Dyslexic Dyslexia Bad Grades Report Cards

Author:Cher

“I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.”

Thinking Whole Fighting Whole Life Grades Maniacs

Author:Ray Liotta

“I grew up in my mom's third grade classroom and always helping her, and I also got a passion for kids that way.”

Way Helping Kids Passion Grew Mom Grew Up Thirds My Mom Grades Classroom Third Grade

Author:Allyson Felix

“Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!”

Stills Wanted Born Teacher Mouths Communicate Math Grades Sixth Grade Math Teacher

Author:Jenna Elfman

“My teacher in the seventh grade told me that if I didn't fool around during class, I could have 15 minutes at the end of the day to do a comedy routine. Instead of bugging everybody, I'd figure out my routine. And at the end of the day, I'd get to perform in front of my entire class. I thought it was really smart of her. It's amazing how important that was.”

Ifs Important Ends Class Comedy Teacher Minutes Fronts Figures Fool Smart Grades The End Of The Day Routine Really Smart And At The End Of The Day Seventh Grade

Author:Jim Carrey

“I was always the class clown, although many teachers view the class clown as a trouble maker. But I always had good grades, so the only thing my parents were told was that while I was intelligent, I talked too much.”

Parent Views Class Too Much Teacher Trouble Intelligent Grades Makers Clown Good Grades Trouble Maker

Author:Godfrey

“Evaluation and coaching get tangled together. When this occurs, the noise of evaluation drowns out coaching efforts. Think of this like a term paper. When you get your assignment grade back (evaluation) you tend to tune out the professor notes in the margins (coaching) if the grade is higher or lower than expected.”

Ifs Thinking Together Term Effort Higher Paper Notes Expected Noise Coaching Grades Tunes Professors Margins Assignments Tangled Evaluation Term Paper

Author:Sheila Heen

“By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply of any grade of labor relative to all other productive factors can be expected to raise its wage rate; and increase in supply will, other things being equal, tend to depress wage rates.”

Principles Policy Equal Labor Increase Raises Rate Expected Immigration Factors Limitation Grades Productive Relative Depressing Wages Basic Principles Being Equal Immigration Policy

Author:Paul Samuelson

“My life was definitely going into a nosedive. When my parents separated (and) divorced when I was fifteen, I definitely lost my bearings and was completely out of control. My grades were plummeting. I had no direction. I was a pretty angry teenager (and) somewhat destructive. So, I broke down in a church when I was 18 and turned my life over to God, thankfully.”

Lost Parent Church Angry Broke Teenager Grades Destructive Fifteen Divorced

Author:Michael Landon, Jr.

“I remember my mum saying to me, 'You can give up the violin - when you've done Grade 8.' Which is the highest grade, and the most unfair target ever. So I did all the grades, just to annoy her.”

Giving Done Remember Giving Up Highest Grades Target Annoying Mum Unfair Violin

Author:Gethin Jones

“Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.”

Littles Made Values Growing Up Growing Thirds Cooking Productions Video Kitchen Grades Italian Third Grade

Author:Bob Ainsworth

“I have wanted to sing for as long as I can remember. Literally, since maybe the second grade. I don't think there was one turning point where I said, "This is it".”

Thinking Long Said I Can Wanted Remember Grades Turning Points

Author:Lauren Hart

“I grew up as a fan of the original Star Trek series. When I was in middle school, I think in the 6th grade, I remember going to a book fair and finding a book called The Making of Star Trek, by Stephen Whitfield, and I grabbed it and took and home and just devoured it, over and over again. It was a really influential book. It was very nuts and bolts.”

Thinking Book Home School Remember Stars Fans Middle Grew Findings Grew Up Fairs Originals Series Grades Nuts Influential Bolts Middle School Nuts And Bolts Original Star Trek

Author:Ronald D. Moore

“A teacher asked us if anybody knew the names of the continents. I was sooo excited. I was like, Damn it! It's my first day of 7th grade, I'm in junior high and I know this answer. So I raised my hand, I was the first one, and I said A-E-I-O-U!”

Ifs Knows Firsts Said Hands Names Answers Teacher Raised Excited Damn Grades Continents Juniors Junior High Dumb Blonde Ditzy

Author:Jessica Simpson

“I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.”

“My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.”

Should Littles School Mother Teacher Taught Should Have Thirds Terror Destroyed Bored Bombs Grades Classroom Snakes Third Grade

Author:Steve Jobs

“I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.”

Way Life Enough Wanted Three Acting Cities Destiny Failing College Needed Involved Directors My Friends Jazz University Credit Cinema Grades Good Enough Gym Involvement Involving Pianist

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.”

Children Ends School High School Thirds Grades Third Grade

Author:Pat Paulsen

“I grew up kind of fast. I had a lot of responsibilities-cleaning the house, going to school on my own, making good grades on my own”

Kind School House My Own Responsibility Grew Grew Up Grades Cleaning Good Grades Clean House

Author:Hines Ward

“Schoolwork came kind of natural to me, but when I brought home a grade that wasn't up to par, my parents let me know it.”

Knows Kind Home Parent Natural Let Me Grades Schoolwork

Author:Chris Bosh

“I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.”

Wanted Satisfaction Grades Academic Nerdy Good Grades

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“When I was in seventh grade, I totally had a crush on a guy who was older than me, and he listened to alternative music. So he was into Days of the New and stuff like that, and more poppy stuff, too, like Matchbox Twenty.”

Guy Stuff Twenties Alternatives Crush Grades Poppies Seventh Grade Alternative Music Matchboxes

Author:Carrie Underwood

“Of course you don't want your kids swearing. But remember how fun it was to cuss when you were in the first grade?”

Want Firsts Kids Remember Courses Fun Grades Swearing

Author:Eminem

“I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.”

Want Father Thirds Grades Fourth Third Grade

Author:Dizzy Dean

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