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“I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.”

Ifs Care School Turns College High School Decided Paid Hated Senior Outstanding

Author:Pauley Perrette

“It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.”

Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion

“At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.”

Age School Turns High School Volume Cartoon

Author:Hugh Hefner

“In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didnt see that I was going to set it aside for so many years and take a right turn into television. Of course, wanting to do theater is something you hear a lot from actors. I think Ive been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.”

Thinking Years Bigs Wanted School Turns Courses Actors Television High School Theater Embarrassed Cliche

Author:Mare Winningham

“Parents don't get that, though. They don't understand about the fragility of teen friendships. They don't understand how easy it is for things to break apart, how someone you thought would be by your side forever can just disappear, or turn on you, or decide she likes someone more than she likes you. Parents always talk about romantic relationships being so ephemeral and fleeting in high school. What they don't get is that friendships can be the same way.”

Way Would Be School Turns Easy Parent Sides Break Forever High School Disappear Likes Fleeting Turn-on Your Side Ephemeral Fragility Romantic Relationship

Book:The Thing About the Truth

Source: The Thing About the Truth

“I like high school and college writing textbooks and find them very helpful. Whenever I'm stuck and seem to have no ideas, I open one up and turn to the back. There I'll find questions like, "Have you had any experiences with an alcoholic or a sailor?"”

Writing Ideas Seems School Turns College High School Stuck No Idea Helpful Alcoholics Sailor Textbooks

Author:David Sedaris

“For my parents to let me turn down the money that I have been offered to go pro, it's unbelievable. They want me to enjoy my senior year in high school. I am so excited to be a senior, finally. It doesn't get more fun than that.”

Want Years Has Beens School Turns Fun Parent Enjoy High School Let Me Excited Want Me Senior Unbelievable Senior Year

Author:Missy Franklin

“It was just such a complete shock to turn on the news one day and see someone that you know, someone you have passed in the halls of your high school. It got me thinking, 'Well, what are some novels that are about female sexual psychopaths? I really didn't have many references for that, and I felt like that was a void in transgressive literature that I wanted to fill.'”

Thinking Knows Wells Wanted School Turns Literature Felt Novel One Day News High School Female Shock Halls Void Turn-on Psychopath

Author:Alissa Nutting

“As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.”

“I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.”

Turns High School Teenager Great Music Turn Me

Author:Katey Sagal

“My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.”

School Turns Father Support Records College High School Brilliant Scholarship Brilliant Ideas Scholastics

Author:Tony Visconti

“I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.”

Made School Turns High School Vegetarian Slugs Tentacles Dissecting Squids

Author:Selma Blair

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.”