“I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.” HomeMightSchoolSawsCollegeHigh SchoolEntertainingOutsidersSchooled Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.” SchoolNextSawsTeamFootballBasketballHigh SchoolCoachesNext DayFootball TeamBasketball Team Author:Charles Mingus
“Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or '92 I saw one of those Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled billboards. I was just really arrested by it. It was kind of my first foray into contemporary art. It was a turning point for me as to what art could be and what it meant and the impact it could have.” FirstsKindArtSchoolGrowing UpSawsGrowingHigh SchoolImpactContemporaryArrestedTurning PointsContemporary ArtBillboardsSurrealistImpressionistsTorres Author:Chloe Sevigny
“It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.” SchoolClassRolesSawsStudentsDramaHigh SchoolProductionsGiftedSteppenwolfDrama Class Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007
“Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I'd think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.” ThinkingShouldSaidSchoolLastsFilmFormNightSawsBasketballHigh SchoolDecidedYeahPopsLast NightWadeFree ThrowD Wade Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“High school was the first time I ever saw spoken word poetry. The first place I ever performed a poem was at my school, so in some ways it was the nucleus of how it all started. For me I think high school was a period of trying to figure myself out, and poetry was one of the ways I did that, and was a very helpful avenue to try to do that.” ThinkingWayTryingFirstsSchoolSawsFiguresPeriodsHigh SchoolFirst TimeHelpfulAvenuesSpoken WordNucleus Author:Phil Kay
“First of all, I'm not a heartthrob. If you saw me in high school, you wouldn't say I'm a heartthrob. Having a hit song, the minute you're famous, you're a heartthrob. I know you don't believe me, but I honestly don't consider myself a heartthrob.” IfsKnowsFirstsBelieveSchoolSongSawsMinutesHigh SchoolDon't BelieveHonestlyBelieve In Me Author:Enrique Iglesias
“Growing up, I was a typical high school kid when YouTube first came out, and I was just watching a whole lot of videos of guys in the league I'm playing with now, guys that aren't in the league, and guys that came before me, just watching the moves that they do, and going out in my backyard and trying them. I did it almost every single day. And I didn't do any crazy dribbling drills or any two-ball dribbling drills. I'm really not good at two-ball dribbling. Nah, never did that. I just went out and tried the moves that I saw.” TryingFirstsTwoWholeKidsSchoolMovingGuyGrowing UpSawsGrowingCrazyHigh SchoolBallsVideoLeagueGoing OutTypicalYoutubeBackyardsDrills Author:Kyrie Irving
“When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at Boston College I was part of an improv group, Mother's Fleabag, which had a long history and has been known as one of the best college improvisation groups in the U.S.” PeopleLongHas BeensSchoolMotherActingKnownLaughingSawsGroupsCollegeBecomingHigh SchoolTheatreComedianBostonImprovisationBest College Author:Amy Poehler
“I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.” SchoolRomanceActorsLeftSawsHigh SchoolDoctorsTheaterObsessedMovieAggravationDoctor Zhivago Author:John Hughes
“When I got into all the grunge stuff, I really liked Hole. I actually saw them in concert when I was a sophomore in high school. It was kind of rare to see a successful female rocker get down and dirty with the guys. And Courtney Love did. It was fun to be a fan of something different.” KindDifferentSchoolGuyFunStuffSuccessfulSawsFansHigh SchoolFemaleDown AndHolesDirtyConcertsRockersSophomoreGrungeCourtney Author:Carrie Underwood
“I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record ("I Thought I Saw Your Face") is about eight years old. It's the old "I had my whole life to write my first album and six months to write the second one." I did, to some degree, but actually, a lot of the songs that ended up on the record, I wrote really recently. So it varies.” WritingYearsFirstsWholeSchoolFacesSongRecordsSawsMonthsDegreesSixHigh SchoolAlbumsEightWhole LifeYour FaceSix MonthsVaryWriting Music Author:Zooey Deschanel
“In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his story in a funny way.” WayStoriesSchoolTogetherSawsCollegeHigh SchoolAdolescenceUnclesAcademyBrooklynLeading MeWilsonReeds Author:Aaron Brookner
“I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.” DifferentKidsAgeSchoolSawsMiddleHigh SchoolBulliedMiddle SchoolMacho Author:Cleve Jones
“By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't much else I was able to do. I was a criminal. I was a juvenile delinquent.” AbleSchoolSawsHigh SchoolCriminalsJuvenileDelinquents Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn’t go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see Tommy when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.” BigsSchoolSawsGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolTheaterDinner Author:Amy Adams
“Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was," I said. He is my neighbor to the north, of course. Big John's son Little John did badly in high school, and the police caught him selling dope. So he joined the Army while the Vietnam War was going on. And the first time he came home in uniform, I never saw Big John so happy, because it looked to him as though Little John was all straightened out and would amount to something. But then Little John came home in a body bag.” KnowsFirstsLittlesSaidWarHomeBodyBigsSchoolCoursesFatherSawsSonAmountProudHigh SchoolFirst TimeArmyPoliceCaughtNeighborSellingBagsVietnamUniformsVietnam WarDope Book:Bluebeard Source: Bluebeard
“The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.' One movie features gruesome onscreen torture that is difficult to watch and the other is about a guy with a saw.” TwoSchoolGuyDifficultWatchesSawsOfficeHigh SchoolMusicalBoxesFeaturesTortureWeekendBox OfficeHigh School Musical Author:Conan O'Brien
“I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white sheet on the board with a dot in the right hand corner and said, "Boys, what do you see?" And we all shouted, a black dot. He stood back and said, "not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet, you all saw the black dot." He went on to tell us to focus on the broader picture, don't focus on the negative.” MenSaidStoriesHandsInspirationSchoolYoungUsedBlackWhiteBoysSawsFocusHigh SchoolNegativeCornersBoardsYoung ManBroadsProfessorsSheetsDots Author:Kofi Annan
“I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.” WantedSchoolActingClassSawsHigh SchoolProfessionMonetaryActing ClassesFluctuation Author:Josh Brolin