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“My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again.”

Doe School Mother My Family Worried Application Supportive Grad Grad School

Author:Ana Ortiz

“I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.”

Knows Done Facts School Remember Company Saws Happened Drama Performances Cheeks You Like It

Author:David Oyelowo

“I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.”

Years Kind Play School Left High School Gas Hockey Dropouts School Dropout High School Dropout Pumping Gas

Author:Adam Oates

“I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.”

School Father Boys Teach Teacher Son Physics Sydney Everyman

Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.”

People Different School House Taken Months Mets Members Traveled Family Members Time Off Extended Family

Author:Christina Perri

“I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.”

Knows Writing Kind Kids School Causes Brother Band My Brother Outcast Writing Poetry

Author:Christina Perri

“I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.”

Play School Drama High School Performing Department

Author:Missi Pyle

“No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.”

Matter Government School Teacher Like You Locals Agents School Teachers

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.”

School Challenges Teach Students Ought Ideology Classroom Secular

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.”

People Want Kind Hard School Levels Findings Athlete Who I Am Like Me

Author:Sally Pearson

“People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!”

People Knows Whole Would Be School Actors Gone Whole Life One Friend

Author:Sara Paxton

“I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.”

People Thinking School Middle Internet Computer Messages High School Boards Middle School

Author:Sara Paxton

“I was never really unpopular in high school.”

School High School

Author:Tyler Posey

“I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.”

Wells Littles School Bits Teacher Goes On Little Bit High School Discouraged

Author:Tyler Posey

“I started cooking out of middle school depression.”

School Middle Cooking Middle School

Author:Zac Posen

“Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.”

Knows Years Stories School Left Car High School Yeah Moved Typical Idaho

Author:Aaron Paul

“I was honestly never a huge school person.”

Persons School Huge Honestly

Author:Anna Paquin

“On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.”

Reality School Havens Dad High School Performances My Dad Juniors Back To Reality

Author:Candace Parker

“I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.”

Children School

Author:Chris Pine

“When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.”

World Firsts Ideas Different Real Would Be School Romance Girl Waiting Sleep Novel Sweet Hero High School Decided Moved Driven Real World Valleys Romance Novel Microcosm Sleeping Beauty

Author:Francine Pascal

“My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.”

Firsts School Left Acting Skills Theater Towns Cameras Backgrounds Small Town Movie Theater

Author:Franka Potente

“School didn't work for me. I hated it.”

School Hated

Author:Gary Paulsen

“In every high school, there is a clique.”

School High School Clique

Author:Janel Parrish

“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.”

School Acting Half Crazy Football Grew Grew Up High School Towns Texas Small Town

Author:Jesse Plemons

“I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.”

Persons Made School Suffering Fun Social Degrees Average Scales Labels Arrows Slings And Arrows Being Made Fun

Author:Jim Parsons

“When I first started out in Houston, it was theater or bust. And I loved it. I still love it. And then I went to undergraduate and graduate school for acting.”

Firsts Stills School Acting Theater Graduates Houston Graduate School Undergraduate

Author:Jim Parsons

“My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.”

Made Play School Mother Three Evil Father Speak Wise Gold Clubs Charm Grandmother Fascinated Monkeys My Grandmother Lap

Author:Mackenzie Phillips

“Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.”

School Mother Father Company High School Firm Secretary Going To Work Printing Salesman Merchants Clerks Wool Stationary Bookkeepers

Author:Martin Lewis Perl

“A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.”

Thinking Way Kids School Film Song Interesting Records Produce Exciting Interesting Things Edits Short Films

Author:Michael Pitt

“After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.”

School Film Study Television Degrees London Posts Graduates Film And Television Embarking Sheffield

Author:Nick Park

“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

“When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.”

Children Kids School Jokes

Author:Megan Fox

“I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.”

Writing Has Beens Kids School Parent Growing Up Growing Kids Growing Up

Author:Tom Perrotta

“A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.”

Looks Stills School Results Novel Progress Heard Changed High School Hollywood Election Producers Life Changing Screenwriters Drawers Wishbones

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.”

Stories School Lost High School Moved Sentences Lost Love

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.”

Writing Real Stories School Culture Team Football Bears Involved High School Magazines Football Team Pariahs

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.”

School Left Kitchen

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.”

School Jobs Pay Acting High School Bills Fortunate

Author:Amy Ryan

“Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.”

Government School Jobs Parent College High School Finishing Adamant Government Jobs

Author:Chance the Rapper

“At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.”

School Syllabus

Author:Kelly Reilly

“I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.”

School Stuff Goes On Drama Training Internals Makeup Chicago Cake Wardrobe Icing Goodman Icing On The Cake

Author:Michael Rooker

“My school friends are really understanding and still want to hang out with me. Ever since I was in sixth grade, I was at the gym every day to work out while my friends were getting their nails done or going to the mall. I used to feel left out, but I don't anymore.”

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Author:Aly Raisman

“By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.”

School Acting Careers High School Favors Forsaken

Author:Michael J. Fox

“What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.”

Looks School

Author:Donna Reed

“It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.”

People Doe Ends School Used Next Lord Cases Weird Things Eton

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.”

Knows Years School Cities Company Teacher New York Victim Selling New York City Engineers Equipment Public School Jersey New Jersey School System Layoff Filtration

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.”

Said School Students College High School Journalism Gears

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.”

Thinking Play Kids School Lost Acting Magic Band High School Guitar Puzzles Juniors Junior High High School Junior

Author:Michael J. Fox

“But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.”

People Ifs School Young Music Is Musical Fewer Implications Musical Education

Author:Johannes Rau

“We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.”

People Country School Church Support Car Punishment Racing Hunts Grit Baptists Scotch Southerner Bourbon Car Racing Corporal Punishment Possums Stock Car Racing

Book:My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

Source: My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture

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