“I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.” WayFeelsTryingMeanFeelingsKidsSchoolUsedLeftPerfectTeacherHigh SchoolRainMy WayDefeatedOverwhelmedHomeworkLeft OutPerfect DaysFeeling DownCool KidFeeling Overwhelmed Author:Kara Lindsay
“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.” IfsThinkingShouldWritingFirstsPersonsIdeasCharacterWould BeRunningSchoolMovingLinesPerfectHellKnowingFourProduceTypePagesCapableHundredHigh SchoolDespiseGraduatesTrappedTenseFirst PersonProtagonistsMonologuesGraduating High School Author:Craig Johnson
“When I was in high school, I was always really envious of those girls who seemed to have everything: the perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect boyfriend, perfect life. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that nobody's life is perfect, and that those girls probably had a lot of the same problems I did.” ProblemSchoolLife IsGirlPerfectHairClothesHigh SchoolI RealizedEnviousPerfect Life 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
“I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating!” WritingYearsBelieveSchoolI BelieveVoicePerfectStreetsCollegeHigh SchoolI Believe InSingersPianoCheatingCompositionSongwritersRhymeSinger SongwritersViolaSesame StreetNo Cheating Author:Sarah Weeks
“Ive always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I still had the booty. In Hollywoods eyes, the perfect women has to be a stick figure, tall, blonde hair, with big boobs.” StillsBigsEyeSchoolPerfectFiguresHairBabyHigh SchoolHollywoodSticksTallSkinnyBlondeBootyBlonde HairPerfect Woman Author:Coco Austin
“I know exactly what that movie's [Brokeback mountain] about. I can't define it; it doesn't tie up in a perfect bow. But it's about adolescence. It's about what it feels like - this isn't meant as a criticism, but like things I didn't relate to, which were high school movies. Where I'd watch it and I'd be like, "Well, am I like the kid that nobody likes? Or am I like the person who everybody [likes]?" I couldn't [tell]. I was like quantifying, putting me in a box. "This is my personality at that age" and "I'm this kind of person" just felt like bullshit to me.” KnowsFeelsWellsKindPersonsI CanKidsAgeSchoolFeltPerfectWatchesPersonalityMountainHigh SchoolCriticismBoxesLikesRelateTiesBowsBullshitAdolescenceBrokeback MountainHigh School Movie Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I think Japans work really hard, and when they have a chance to listen to music, they just go crazy. And the Ramones would be a natural fit for Japan, because Japan invented the cartoon, and the Ramones, especially in Rock 'N' Roll High School, are very cartoonish. So it'd be a perfect group for them.” ThinkingSchoolNaturalChancePerfectCrazyFitHigh SchoolCartoonListening To MusicRamones Author:P. J. Soles
“Donald Trump is an especially depressing phenomena because he is so debased and debasing and millions and millions of people want him to be president. We're seeing how at least whole swathes of white America are becoming your worst nightmare of eternal Zombie High School. Something like a perfect mix of Groundhog Day and The Moronic Inferno. How can it be that a guy who looks like a bloated cadaver pulled from the Gowanus canal, with some rouge on his cheeks and a sticky Something About Mary wig, is actually applauded by his followers for making fun of how other people look?” PeopleSchoolGuyFunPresidentPerfectWorstHigh SchoolNightmareDepressingZombieInferno Author:Francisco Goldman
“Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)” PersonsSchoolPerfectDaughterHigh SchoolStuckSnowGiftedJuniorsGeorgiaMe AloneLike HerHopkinsHigh School JuniorStuck Up Author:Ellen Hopkins
“I was never the cool kid, I was never hot in high school. I was never popular. You don't have to be perfect and you don't have to be rich and you can still be successful.” StillsKidsSchoolPerfectSuccessfulRichHigh SchoolHotBeing SuccessfulCool Kid Author:Kesha
“I just graduated from high school, and I was working at Blockbuster. Not only did I get into movies while I was there, but I was putting away boxes and looking at the kids on the covers. It felt like windows into these seemingly perfect lives.” KidsSchoolFeltPerfectHigh SchoolWindowBoxesBlockbusterPerfect Life Author:Adam Brody
“But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.” IfsKindHardPlaySchoolPerfectPracticeHigh SchoolAthleteAthletic Author:Piper Perabo