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“It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.”

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Author:Richard Louv

“I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent, so I can deal with that.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.”

Different Kids School Film Five Towns Video Life Experience Film School Avid

Author:Jodie Foster

“If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.”

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Author:Cynthia Nixon

“It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.”

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Author:Jamie Oliver

“It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.”

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Author:Terry O'Quinn

“But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.”

Shows Kids School Parent Clear Students Research Connections Performances Priorities Nutrition

Author:Jared Polis

“Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up.”

Needs Has Beens Made Enough Kids School Grows Walks Behinds Boys Growing Up Special Sand Tease Had Enough Bullied Elementary School Special Needs

Author:Lauren Potter

“I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.”

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Author:Brie Larson

“I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.”

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Author:Christine Lagarde

“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

“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

“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.”

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Author:Tom Perrotta

“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

“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?”

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Author:Brandon Sanderson

“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.”

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Author:Jessica Seinfeld

“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.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“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.”

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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

“Let's pass more gun control laws and buy metal detectors for every public school in the land - anything but tell kids that life is sacred, because its Creator deems it so.”

Kids School Law Life Is Education Land Gun Sacred Creator Metals Gun Control Public School Metal Detectors

Author:Don Feder

“There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.”

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Author:Jason Segel

“I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.”

Thinking Kids School Certain Rich Media Elites Grounding Rich Kids

Author:Shepard Smith

“My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.”

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Author:Aisha Tyler

“I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.”

Knows Kids School Taken Cutting Tough Teeth Pretending Milk Hideous Fangs Antibiotics Jaundice

Author:Charlize Theron

“I like circle time and school drop-off. And I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.”

Stills Hands Kids School Willing Circles

Author:Christine Taylor

“I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.”

People Kids School Felt Mass Loser September Tequila Cool Kid

Author:Tila Tequila

“You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.”

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Author:Alexander Wang

“The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.”

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Author:Dan Wheldon

“Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.”

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Author:Luke Wilson

“I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.”

Trying Long Play Kids Age School Past Girl Water Team Hair Balls Guitar Glasses Athlete Piano Grades Hockey Throwing Buckets Jocks Long Hair Acne Hockey Team

Author:Michael Weatherly

“Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.”

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Author:Shailene Woodley

“I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.”

Home Would Be Running Kids School Car Hot Guitar Magazines Engines Bothered

Author:Angus Young

“I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.”

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Author:Kara Lindsay

“I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.”

Firsts Persons Kids School Class High School Yale Larks

Author:Maya Lin

“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

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Author:Al Franken

“Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.”

Firsts Helping Kids School Life Is Clear I Realized Meant To Be

Author:Greg Mortenson

“I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.”

Kids School Night Fall Program Theater Every Night After School After School Programs

Author:Scoot McNairy

“I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.”

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Author:Chrisette Michele

“I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.”

Home Kids School Nations Office Awake Gym Pms

Author:Steve Vai

“I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.”

Kids School High School Outcast

Author:Barry Zito

“I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.”

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Author:Matthew Perry

“I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that's for sure, for joking around.”

Kids School Trouble Joking Around

Author:Matthew Perry

“I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself.”

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Author:Matthew Perry

“I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.”

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Author:Faith Evans

“Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.”

Mind Hands Kids School Offers Bored Dirty Engineering Engineers

Author:Bruce Dickinson

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

Kids School Crazy College High School

Author:Alexandra Patsavas

“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

“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

“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.”

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Author:Grant Gustin

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