“I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.” StillsWholeWould BeWantedSchoolMy OwnStudyResearchHigh SchoolYeahWhole LifeQuittingBiologySmoothMarineSantaBiologistCruzMarine LifeBahamasMarine BiologyMarine BiologistSanta Cruz Author:Cobie Smulders
“The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.” ThinkingWayWritingFirstsKindImportantBookStoriesSchoolYoungNaturalMy OwnFictionNovelSuccessfulMysteryFieldsAdventureRight NowStandardsHigh SchoolAdultsVictimYoung AdultTitlesAwardsSpainRegister Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.” PeopleWayBookHelpingMightSchoolFeltMy OwnHugeHigh SchoolAweFlattered Author:Sarah Dessen
“After I graduated from high school, one of the former workers on our farm asked if I would be willing to join him in selling Fuller brushes through the summer. It seemed like a perfect way to make some money for college. And being away from my parents and learning to make my own way gave me self confidence.” IfsWaySelfWould BeSchoolParentMy OwnPerfectCollegeWillingSummerHigh SchoolWorkersSelf ConfidenceSellingFormerFarmsBrushes Author:Billy Graham
“When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy.” KnowsYearsKindSaidSchoolSongMy OwnTalkingDadOne DayHigh SchoolSouthMusicalMy DadBusRidingRollingGenealogy Author:Rosanne Cash
“When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.” LittlesStatesSchoolSongSoundMy OwnMorningListeningBandHigh SchoolStartingTeenagerEvery MorningMysticalEasternBugsDroppingAmazonTranceCelticZeppelinsTuningCassettesDropping OutBongs Author:Dave Grohl
“The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which is what I think is discovered as that longish sentence at the end of the poem comes to its conclusion. But here I am interpreting my own poem, which is kind of like making out with one's own high school yearbook photo.” ThinkingKindEndsFeelingsSchoolRealizingMy OwnDangerousHigh SchoolSentencesAbsurdConclusionReach OutSpeakersConsolationHere I AmInterpretingYearbookHigh School Yearbook Author:Matthew Zapruder
“Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!” ThinkingSchoolMy OwnHeardSingingHigh SchoolMumSonyPrivate Things Author:Brooke Fraser
“When I was in high school, I loved paintball. I saved up my allowances and started my own paintball supply company. Everyone thought I was just some obsessed kid, but today the company is one of the biggest paintball suppliers in Canada.” KidsTodaySchoolMy OwnCompanyHigh SchoolSavedObsessedCanadaAllowanceSuppliers Author:Ryan Holmes
“I kept doing my own thing, working out with weights, wrestling, and doing other spots until I graduated from high school. Then I made a conscious decision to pursue MMA seriously and full time.” MadeSchoolMy OwnDecisionConsciousHigh SchoolWeightWork OutPursueSpotsMmaWrestlingThings Work Out Author:Robbie Lawler
“I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.” SchoolStuffMy OwnHigh SchoolGuitarTeenager Author:Kathy Bates
“In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.” WritingHomeRunningWantedSchoolStuffMy OwnRocksStageBandHigh SchoolDecidedInspiredQuittingPianoPunkKeyboardsI QuitIndie Rock Author:Angel Olsen
“My mother is a very fun-loving person. She has been through a lot in her life. She has had a couple of divorces. When I was in high school she was a single mother. That's when I learned to do my own laundry.” PersonsHas BeensSchoolMotherFunMy OwnCoupleHigh SchoolDivorceLaundrySingle MotherLoving PersonFun Loving Author:Kenny Chesney
“I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.” ThinkingInspirationalSchoolMy OwnHigh SchoolMy FamilyResponsibleIndependentLeavingTeenagerTeensI Have LearnedApartmentMy Own LifeBeing ResponsibleSchool LifeTeenage Life Author:Adriana Lima
“I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.” KnowsHardSchoolMy OwnShareMiddleHigh SchoolFairsSuicideCommittedHard TimesGood FriendBest FriendPersonal ExperiencesBulliedMiddle SchoolFair ShareReally Good Friends Author:Brittany Snow
“I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.” InspirationalWantedSchoolFunnyMy OwnHigh SchoolAlbumsGraduation Author:Christina Aguilera
“I remember what it was like in the 1960's in rural Louisiana. Women did not have many options. My own best friend in high school had a baby at 16. I don't want us to go back to those days.” WantSchoolRememberMy OwnBabyHigh SchoolWant U1960sLouisiana Author:Kim Gandy