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“Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.”

Made Important Kids School Reading Parent Who I Am Very Inspirational

Author:Sasha Grey

“Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters - the saints and the sinners, real or imagined - reading shows you how to be a better human being.”

World Humans Real Character Helping Shows School Reading Human Beings Forgotten Saint Pursue Around The World Sinner Traveler Changing Your Life Rough Times

Book:The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Source: The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

“It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.”

Should School Class Boys Students Honor High School My Favorite Obvious Honor Roll

Book:Who Asked You?

Source: Who Asked You?

“I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.”

School Used Night Next House Hours Fronts Standing Mirrors Tables Work Out Length Next Day

Author:Clemence Poesy

“I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.”

Trying Age Wanted School Young Names Parent Comedy Fit Late Accents Young Age Trying To Fit In

Author:Nasim Pedrad

“I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.”

School Jobs Realizing Hell Needed Office Marketing I Realized Fulfillment Part Time Office Jobs

Author:Stephanie Szostak

“I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went to a university in France for maybe a month and dropped out.”

Years School Months High School Golf University France Teenager After High School

Author:Stephanie Szostak

“I've done loads of things people have never seen, dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush, and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.”

People Done Play School Drama Court Load Royal Upstairs

Author:Rafe Spall

“I taught high school students Spanish.”

School Students Taught High School High School Students

Author:Daniela Bobadilla

“Ive always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. I became obsessed with that.”

School Girl Theater Catholic Musical Artistic Obsessed Catholic School Musical Theater

Author:Daniela Bobadilla

“Ive never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.”

School Gone Cooking Culinary Cooking Love Culinary Love Culinary School

Author:Keshia Knight Pulliam

“My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.”

Trying Sometimes School Moving Difficult Military Dad Tough My Dad New Places

Author:Nolan Gould

“I played football growing up in junior high and high school.”

School Growing Up Growing Football High School Juniors Junior High

Author:Ryan Merriman

“I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.”

Home School High School Schooled Prom School Experience

Author:Cameron Monaghan

“My belief is that sports in school is not an extracurricular activity.”

School Belief Sports Activity Extracurricular Activities

Author:Brian Kilmeade

“My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school.”

School Mom My Mom Silk Elementary School

Author:Allegra Versace

“Id never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.”

School America Sound Heard Halls Like Something

Author:Nicky Whelan

“They're always such alive females. And also, all those love stories - no man in Austen has ever fallen in love with a female heroine because she's pretty or beautiful or has long, blonde hair. They fall in love with them because of who they are, because of their vibrancy and their intelligence and if only we were teaching that a bit more in schools.”

Ifs Men Long Stories School Beautiful Fall Bits Alive Teaching Hair Female Falling In Love Love Story Fallen Blonde Heroines Austen Blonde Hair Vibrancy Long Blonde Hair

Author:Anna Maxwell Martin

“Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.”

Want Happens School Film My Own Numbers Acting Film School

Author:Joseph Mazzello

“There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.”

Giving Art Important Different Sometimes Kids School Space Creativity Creative Talent Type Traditional Platforms

Author:Caity Lotz

“In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.”

Trying Art Different School Together Moving Stuff Rooms Style High School Jazz Contemporary Martial Arts Wrestling Flip Mixing Windmills Lunchtime

Author:Caity Lotz

“I like to act. I guess letting what you love be what you do is key. I've worked very hard for that to be the case, probably because I'm very lazy and I only want to do things that are fun and I run away from anything that feels like work... Acting for me is like lunch at school - you're just in a playground where you get to pretend and play.”

Want Feels Hard Play Running School Fun Love Is Acting Cases Keys Lazy Lunch Running Away What You Love Playgrounds

Author:Dichen Lachman

“As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study.”

Knows Trying Persons Hard School Wish Brain Study Dad Difficulty Plant Seven My Dad Eight Chips Tutor

Author:Dichen Lachman

“I took a drama class in elementary school, and I just remember having so much fun with it. From there, I just studied, got better as I went along, and continued to grow.”

School Remember Fun Grows Class Drama Elementary School Drama Class

Author:Sinqua Walls

“Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.”

Want Children Home Kids Able School Our Children Excellent Charter Charter Schools Albuquerque Excellent Education

Author:Steven Michael Quezada

“I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.”

Years School Born Summer England Raised Nigeria Switzerland Born And Raised Summer School

Author:Toks Olagundoye

“My parents have always been very supportive. I didnt go to school because my home was my school.”

Home School Parent Supportive

Author:Clara Mamet

“When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.”

Littles School Community Elementary School Jewish Community

Author:Clara Mamet

“I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.”

Years Kids School Middle Moved Grades Fourth Fourth Grade School Years

Author:Michael Steger

“Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.”

Ifs Made School Night Sides Doubt New York Lucky Scripts Helpful Auditions Grad Semester Grad School

Author:Rich Sommer

“My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.”

Believe School Jesus Teacher Prove High School Rising Genesis School Teachers Science Teacher High School Teachers

Author:Andy Stanley

“I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.”

Thinking Years School Five Four Six Seven Seven Years

Author:Gaby Hoffmann

“I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasnt getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug.”

World Writing Trying School Together Acting High School Program Paid Theater Closest Bugs Juniors Elementary School Junior High Living Together Closest Friends Abram

Author:Greg Grunberg

“I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.”

Firsts Wells School America Mom One Day Summer South My Mom Grades Staying Vacation South Africa Coming Back North America Slipping Summer Vacation

Author:Kandyse McClure

“Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.”

Needs Feels Wells I Can School Can Do Acting Situation Honor Drama Training Feel Good Graduates I Can Do It Graduate School I Feel Good

Author:Andrea Anders

“I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.”

People Made Kids School Fun Growing Up Growing Fit High School

Author:Magda Apanowicz

“I started doing drama after school, and it just developed into something that I did and I enjoyed very much.”

School Drama Enjoyed After School

Author:Dominique McElligott

“I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me; I dont know why! There were only 330 kids in my high school, though, so it wasnt a lot of kids to impress or reign over.”

Knows Body Kids School President Students Drama High School Seven Clubs Impress Reign Drama Club

Author:Nicholas Braun

“I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.”

Heart School Girl Parent Grew Grew Up Moved West South London Brits

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.”

Firsts School Walks Hills Grades Fourth Avenues Capitol Fourth Grade Capitol Hill

Author:Stone Gossard

“If you are a czar or a king or a president or someone that wants to control those below them you do not want people to have a consciousness of life, of their needs. Because people do not make good slaves when they're connected to life... That's why in the public schools the primary objective is obedience to authority.”

People Ifs Want Needs School President Consciousness Kings Authority Slave Connected Objectives Primaries Obedience Public School Czars Obedience To Authority

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.”

People Knows School White Hair African American Graduates White Hair

Author:Tracie Thoms

“Back when I was in elementary school, I didnt have many friends.”

School Back When Elementary School Many Friends

Author:Israel Broussard

“Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.”

Trying Sometimes School Voice White Growing Up Growing Figures Hair Experiments Latina

Author:Monica Raymund

“I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.”

Art Age School Young Study Four Students Involved Piano Boards Royal Young Age

Author:Monica Raymund

“I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.”

Knows Looks Wanted School Girl Teenager Conventional Pretty Girl

Author:Lily Cole

“I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.”

School Found Perspective Bigger Modeling Grounding

Author:Lily Cole

“In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair.”

Enough School Culture Realizing Hair British British Culture

Author:Lily Cole

“I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.”

World Trying Whole School Young Stuff Bits Hurt Class Middle Youth Drama Determined Theatre Middle Class Usual Hurt Me Sociable It Really Hurts Youth Theatre

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.”

School Stars Drama Draws Notion Theatre Ties Movie Star Family Ties

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

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