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“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.”

People Ifs Sometimes Able School Faces Attention Tvs Like You High School Negative Pockets Your Face

Author:Charlotte Arnold

“I think that there's a particular type of person who goes into children's theater, and then goes into theater in high school. There was something about the guys I knew in theater, we were all very vulnerable. You could tell that at some point we were made fun of.”

Thinking Children Persons Made School Guy Fun Particular Type High School Theater Vulnerable

Author:Craig Brewer

“In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.”

School Turns Personality Creating Primaries Fake Righteous Friday Turkish Hardworking Primary School

Author:Osman Baydemir

“I started drama in high school.”

School Drama High School

Author:Daniel Cudmore

“After high school, I had $2,000 saved, and I packed everything I could into my '95 Nissan Sentra with no air-conditioning, and I drove out to L.A.”

School Air High School Saved Conditioning Air Conditioning After High School Life After High School

Author:Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

“If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.”

Ifs School Goal Gone Football Exposure Scholarship

Author:Michael Corbat

“Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.”

Years School Remember Behinds High School

Author:Nikki DeLoach

“I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.”

Believe School Choices I Believe Parent Ought Public School School System School Choice

Author:William H. Gray III

“The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.”

School America Equal Fairs Argument Pursuit Minorities Fund Scholarship

Author:William H. Gray III

“I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.”

School Trouble Fields Achiever

Author:Peter Hollingworth

“I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.”

Knows Wells Self School Bits Ability Lows Average Self Confidence

Author:Peter Hollingworth

“Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.”

World School Serious High School Adults Premises Unspoken Microcosm Time Of Your Life

Author:Rian Johnson

“The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.”

Writing Age School Young Enjoy Interest Skills Journalism Young Age Writing Skills

Author:William Jackson

“Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.”

People Want Sometimes School Jobs Listening Right Now Just Listen

Author:Alexandra Kotur

“I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.”

Firsts School Actors Company Needed Theater Expanding New Company

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.”

Way Hard School Father Rich Comfortable Privileged Good School Comfortable Life

Author:Joe Kyrillos

“I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.”

Kids School Crazy College High School

Author:Alexandra Patsavas

“I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.”

School Jobs Remember Careers Phases Advisors Scuba Scuba Divers

Author:Paul Putner

“I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.”

Play School Elementary School School Plays

Author:Jason Mewes

“I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.”

Age School

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.”

“I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.”

Kids School Form Social Grows Tree Streets Security Taught Garden Fruit Parks Nuts Roof Social Security Fruit Trees Edibles

Author:Jackie French

“I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.”

Years School New York High School Moved Agency Representation Senior Modeling Juniors Senior Year

Author:Teri Polo

“I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.”

Home School Turns Roles Growing Up Growing Tvs Grew Mom Grew Up Models Males Role Models Adopted Turn-on Single Mom Male Role Models

Author:Bailey Chase

“In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.”

Kids School Bits Middle Wall Teeth Dirt Middle School Recess

Author:Russell Wilson

“The primary reason people seek job security is because that is what they are taught to seek, at home and at school..then with debt loads, they must cling even tighter to a job, or professional security, just to pay the bills.”

People Reason Home School Jobs Pay Security Taught Bills Debt Primaries Load

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.”

Ifs Thinking School Ability Player Football College High School Nfl Football Player College Football Nfl Players Good College Good High School

Author:Robert Griffin III

“I'm a very big public school advocate.”

Bigs School Public School

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“I usually balance school by doing online classes and regular classes - that has helped me a lot, and I'm able to get my schoolwork done while I'm traveling too.”

Done Able School Class Balance Online Schoolwork

Author:Jordyn Wieber

“I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.”

School College High School Theater

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.”

People School Young Education Generations Style Information Students Demand Steady Self Education Cafeteria

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is evil, no one in that corrupt system could show me.”

Soul Shows School Young Girl Evil Literature Saved My Soul Show Me Russian Literature

Author:Irina Ratushinskaya

“Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.”

Way School Social Study Taught Theory Truth Is High School Despite Primitive Social Studies

Book:Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

Source: Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

“Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.”

Knows School Language Mistake Speech Sentences Native Speakers Grammar Same Mistakes

Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

“Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien "other." But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture.”

Stills Ideas Use School Culture Force Teach Clear Worst Essentials Criticism Corruption Aliens Torture Mask Ingredients Censorship Cowardice Submit Use Of Force

Author:Pablo Antonio Cuadra

“I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.”

Made Age School Week Seven Finished Working It Seven Days Finished School

Author:Albert Gubay

“I was 'gay-bashed' when I was in school even though, you know, I'm not... I'm a straight guy that just happens to be what I do. So, it's easily relatable to me. It was awful. It's a hard time in a kid's life.”

Knows Hard Happens Kids School Guy Gay Awful Hard Times Relatable

Author:Grant Gustin

“I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.”

Firsts Two States School Jobs Three Sports Construction Yards Free Time Yard Work

Author:Breaux Greer

“My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.”

Ifs Years School Guy Found Changed Dad Easier Army Moved My Dad New Friends Funny Guy

Author:Jason Gann

“My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.”

Knows School Used Guy Cities Brother High School My Brother This Day Lobbyists

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.”

Way Firsts School Technology Students Internet Easier Cost Benefits Presses Analysis Printing Great Education Printing Press Cost Benefit Analysis

Author:John Katzman

“Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue that you would make it a less compelling school. However, online schools will be as good as their classroom peers only if they are large enough to afford a substantial and ongoing investment.”

Ifs Enough School Quality Investment University Size Arguing Online Faculty Classroom Compelling Peers Ongoing Campus

Author:John Katzman

“Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.”

Men Use Problem School Accepting College High School Sat Grades

Author:John Katzman

“You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.”

Doe Stills School Remember High School Forgotten Sat Score Sat Scores

Author:John Katzman

“I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.”

I Can Running School Actors Natural Acting Drama Training Instinct Realised Swans Natural Instinct

Author:Katie Leung

“In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.”

Knows Years Kind School Stars Dark Theater Screens Primaries Atmosphere Uncles Movie Star Lighting Primary School

Author:Andrew Lau

“Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.”

School Accents Glasgow

Author:Annalena McAfee

“Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.”

Thinking Men School Break Habit Approach Planning Grammar Good Education Grammar School

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.”

School High School Theater Managers

Author:Michael Rady

“I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.”

Feels Stories Today School Remember Mother Father Parent Taken Taught Impact Hearing Ashamed Native Native American Grandparent Mother And Father Reservations Parents And Grandparents

Author:Chaske Spencer

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