“Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.” PeopleWayTryingKindSometimesKidsSchoolFiguresHigh School Author:Luke Wilson
“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.” TwoSometimesStatesSchoolJobsOpportunitySportsBlackTeacherFourYouthHigh SchoolBaseballBlockRestaurantsAspireJerseyNew JerseyElevatorsOperatorsAll StateJob OpportunitiesBlack Youth Author:Monte Irvin
“Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face.” PeopleIfsSometimesAbleSchoolFacesAttentionTvsLike YouHigh SchoolNegativePocketsYour Face Author:Charlotte Arnold
“Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout issues. But because of the flow of events which involve the racial component, we've sometimes confused racial issues with other issues which are trans-racial.” PeopleSometimesSchoolAmericaLinesWhitePoorIssuesEventsHigh SchoolFlowCrossesConfusedPoor PeopleComponentsBreakdownTransDropoutsSchool DropoutHigh School Dropout Author:David Brooks
“I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.” SometimesSchoolFoundParentGrowing UpGrowingGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolLet MeSurpriseFamiliarAuditionsMovie Sets Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I don't think I'd be a party girl [even if I were] in college. When I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did at a party that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom. But there are certain things that I would like to do but can't. Sometimes I don't get invited to things because my friends know it's going to be a hassle to take me.” IfsThinkingKnowsSometimesWantedSchoolRememberCertainGirlPartySeeingCryCollegeHigh SchoolMy FriendsTake MeWeekendInvitedMondayBathroomThat GirlHassleParty GirlGirl Crying Author:Taylor Swift
“It's hard sometimes when you're in a regular high school, you just feel like the odd kid out. The great thing about going to an art school [is] it's kind of like it's all the odd kids. It's all the kids that don't fit in at their regular schools, because you're into something and excited about something that other kids really aren't into. When you go to art school, everybody's kind of on the same page.” FeelsKindArtSometimesHardKidsSchoolFitPagesHigh SchoolExcitedGreat ThingsOddArt School Author:Anthony Mackie
“Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.” PeopleSometimesSchoolJobsCitiesCollegeDegreesHigh SchoolBrokeDiplomaCollege DegreeHigh School Diploma Author:Rachel Grady
“I knew I could compete with most people in high school. It didn't quite give me an attitude, but it made me think I didn't have to try hard sometimes.” PeopleThinkingGivingTryingMadeSometimesHardSchoolAttitudeHigh SchoolGive Me Author:Ashton Eaton
“I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality.” FeelsStillsSometimesBodyRealitySchoolFeltFitHigh SchoolGoing AwayAwkward Author:Amy Adams
“High school. You know, people say, 'I'll never do so-and-so again' - then they do it. So what? Sometimes somebody has crack, and you're looking to stay awake.” PeopleKnowsSometimesSchoolHigh SchoolAwakeCracks Author:Jon Stewart
“I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.” IfsWritingKindLittlesI CanDifferentSometimesDoneBigsSchoolReadingEnjoyCrazyTeachingAnxietySingingHigh SchoolVariousPerformingPrivacyOperaDifferent KindsExhaustingChunksPoetry ReadingOpera Singing Author:Garth Greenwell
“In high school, people are sometimes encouraged to be like everyone else. What's so great about this show is that these kids are weird and different and over-achievers. They know what they want and they're going after it. They're weird and they don't deny it. That's what makes it special.” PeopleKnowsWantDifferentSometimesShowsKidsSchoolSpecialHigh SchoolDenyAchiever Author:Sarah Steele
“I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on a car stereo. Once you get a car at that age, you're spending all the time you can away from home, sometimes just driving around aimlessly. Listening, or not even listening, but subconsciously soaking up this classic rock barrage.” SometimesHomeAgeSchoolRocksCarCollegeListeningHigh SchoolRadioSpendingDrivingAlternativesClassicAway From HomeSoakingClassic RockGood CollegeAlternative Rock Author:Craig Finn
“I don't know if this is advice, but I remember this guy in high school who came off like he'd been with a lot of women. He said, "Dude, what girls sometimes like is the unexpected." There were these girls who were always giving him tittie twisters, and he kept warning them, "I'm going to do it back." I'm thinking, There's no way. But sure enough, one girl crossed the line and he did.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayGivingSaidSometimesEnoughSchoolRememberGuyGirlLinesAdviceHigh SchoolUnexpectedWarningThis GuyTwister Author:Jon Heder
“Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.” PeopleYearsSometimesWholeSchoolSpeakTalkingTeamFrontsSpeechHigh SchoolWhole Year Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“We were lucky if we got two takes out of a scene in the Rock 'N' Roll High School. But the Ramones did get a lot of material cut out. I think Marky Ramone calls Mr. McGree "Mr. McGlube." But that was sort of endearing and charming, and made you just love the Ramones even more. Sometimes those flubs work in favor of the filmmakers. They just couldn't get out more than one sentence in a row. It was just kind of weird. I think they were just nervous.” ThinkingKindSometimesSchoolCuttingSceneLuckyHigh SchoolNervousFilmmakerCharmingOne SentenceEndearingRamones Author:P. J. Soles
“I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.” KindSometimesCharacterSchoolHigh School Author:William Zabka
“I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.” WaySometimesHelpingProblemSchoolFallThreeClassSpringHigh SchoolSeasonsEightMilesWeatherClockFarmsHarvestHorsebackBad Weather Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.” ThinkingYearsMindSometimesSchoolSunHavensBedHigh SchoolLaysRoundsBoredPaleSunscreenTanningTanning Beds Author:Taylor Swift
“Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.” IfsThinkingLongSometimesEnoughSchoolActivityHigh SchoolAdultsToughWorth ItHazy Author:Laurie Halse Anderson
“Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.” ThinkingWaySaidSometimesSchoolLastsRaceSeriousLaughterHigh SchoolMadTeeth Book:East of Eden Source: East of Eden
“Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.” PeopleKnowsSometimesSchoolWomenHigh SchoolAdministrators Author:Vanessa Bayer