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“It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.”

Kind Different Character School Careers Drama All Kinds Range Different Characters

Author:Lance Reddick

“I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.”

People World School My Own Gone Wonderful This World Right Now Draws Wonderful Things

Author:Lily Rabe

“I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.”

People School Wonderful Training University Elementary School Motown Proper Training

Author:Martha Reeves

“I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school.”

Art Age Wanted School Young High School Camps Young Age Jersey New Jersey Counselor

Author:Melissa Rauch

“TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed to. So it was my dream to work in television.”

Long Home Dream School Fall Watches Growing Up Growing Television Tvs Mom My Mom Ran Grades Homework

Author:Melissa Rauch

“I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.”

Writing School Girl Voice Cities College Involved Organization Familiar Pairs Ratios Inner City Underprivileged Great Organizations Inner City Schools

Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.”

Giving Different School Mother

Author:Michael Reagan

“In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.”

Persons School Faces Middle Worst Adults Bigger Damn Destructive Insecure Middle School Worst Times Slapping Bigger Person

Author:Nikki Reed

“Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.”

Different School Girl Hair High School Blue Accepted Hello Gothic Juniors Junior High Kitties Blue Hair Hello Kitty

Author:Nikki Reed

“I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.”

People School Together Moving Artist Theater Fishes Concerts Schools Of Fish

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have their head examined - otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it?”

Needs Believe School I Believe Wealth Creation Thirds Good Things University Dare Free Market Runway

Author:Stuart Rose

“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.”

“You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?”

Knows Mean Has Beens Different Care Kids Able School Together College High School Hanging Out Good Friend Who Cares Nerdy Clique

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.”

Whole Wanted School High School Whole Life Marine Biologist Marine Life Bahamas Marine Biology Marine Biologist Santa Cruz

Author:Cobie Smulders

“I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.”

“I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.”

“The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.”

Writing Art Book Inspiration School Choices Stuff Views Point Of View Dialogue Crafts Plot Workshops Characterization Pacing Word Choice

Author:Garth Stein

“During the week, my days are consumed with school commitments, play-dates and work for Baby Buggy, a nonprofit I started, which collects kids' gear for parents in need. So on weekends, I look forward to uninterrupted time with my family.”

Needs Looks Play Kids School Parent Week Baby Commitment My Family Weekend Consumed Gears Nonprofits Play Dates

Author:Jessica Seinfeld

“I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.”

Knows Needs Children Long School Minutes Bed Structure Leaving Boundaries My Children Thrive

Author:Jessica Seinfeld

“So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.”

School High School Semester

Author:Jessica Szohr

“There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!”

People School High School Percentages Handbags Limos

Author:Jessica Szohr

“I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.”

Writing Years Book School Five High School Five Years Juniors Writing A Book Five Year Olds Junior High High School Junior

Author:Karrine Steffans

“Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.”

Way Important School Decided Lots Of Money

Author:Kevin Systrom

“I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.”

Thinking School Written Pages High School Scripts Dialogue Thirty Looking Back Staples Wannabes

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.”

Ifs World Littles School Grew Grew Up Towns Patient Library Enthusiastic Librarian Doorways Another World Bookstores Tennessee

Author:Michael Sims

“I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.”

Writing School Saws Talent Late Teens Zines

Author:Sonja Sohn

“I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.”

Made Home School Felt Miserable Grades Inner Life Turmoil Chores Home Life Good Grades

Author:Sonja Sohn

“I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.”

School College Seven Vienna

Author:Thomas G. Stemberg

“I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.”

Want School Degrees Sociology Going Back To School

Author:Alicia Sacramone

“With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.”

Want Writing Children Hands Able School Parent Study Special Demand Tests Ears My Children Shakes Statistics Contracts Public School Accounting Calculus Preps Special Education

Author:Amity Shlaes

“In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.”

Way Ends School Values Wealth Economy Fans Bigger Add Efficient Zuckerberg Snobby

Author:Amity Shlaes

“I worked my way through law school.”

Way School Law My Way Law School

Author:Brian Sandoval

“I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.”

Wells Age School Born Half Teacher Four Educated Admirable Thirteen Well Educated

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.”

Way School Class Band High School Jazz Juniors Junior High After School Marching Band Jazz Band

Author:Chad Smith

“We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.”

Mean Doe School Moral Boys Program Bullying Anti Bullying Moral Education

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.”

People Country States School Levels Leader Position Produce Goes On Degrees Educational Department Public School Harvard High Level Administrators

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.”

People Writing Kids School Not Interested Very Happy Sitcom Aggravation

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!”

Knows Has Beens School Remember Causes Lines Careers High School Lawyer Chickens Airplane Cannons Plumber

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.”

School Community Environment Teacher Involvement Good Teacher

Author:David Selby

“I never dated much in high school or college.”

School College High School

Author:David Spade

“I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.”

Years School Teacher High School Movie Sets School Years

Author:Devon Sawa

“I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.”

School Months Six High School Finished Hung Six Months

Author:Devon Sawa

“I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.”

Trying Whole School Process College High School

Author:Devon Sawa

“The next movie I do is not going to be in school.”

School Next

Author:Devon Sawa

“We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.”

Country Matter School Growing Up Knowing Growing Circumstances No Matter What Finished Get Up Mainstream

Author:Donna Shalala

“I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.”

Important Dream Kids Wanted School Mines Industry Degrees Musician Priorities Massive Music Industry

Author:Emeli Sande

“There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.”

Kids School Conservative Private School Close Minded

Author:Ione Skye

“Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.”

People Thinking School Despite Followers Panic Slacker

Author:Kristen Stewart

“With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians that seem more interested in posturing than in governing, it has become more difficult, or should I say challenging, to achieve that inner symbiosis with life.”

Should Years Country Seems School Humanity Difficult Challenges Achieve Crime Buddhism Politician Rate Pace Should I Governing School System Crime Rates Symbiosis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”

Mind Doe School Literature Education

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)

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