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“There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.”

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Author:Camilla Luddington

“My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.”

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Author:Katie Leclerc

“I got into acting in high school mainly because I wasn't doing anything else and started to hit a few bumps in the road. And there was a conference with my parents who said either you find something to do with your time or we will. And so, I don't know why I thought this was the thing to do, but I went to audition for the school play.”

Knows Said Play School Parent Acting High School Things To Do Auditions Conferences Bumps School Plays Bumps In The Road

Author:Matt Letscher

“To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.”

Knows Years Has Beens Play Able School Law Stuff Talking Lawyer Faster Belts Law School Courtroom

Author:Jerry O'Connell

“When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.”

Ifs Knows World Littles Persons Ends School Girl Party High School Opposites Adolescence

Author:Jerry O'Connell

“The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh. I think there's an element of that in there.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Wells School Laughing Elements Harder Cute Rely Shy Hanging Out Making People Laugh

Author:Kaitlin Olson

“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

“I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.”

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Author:Lilly Pulitzer

“The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.”

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Author:Jim Leach

“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.”

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Author:David Oyelowo

“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

“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

“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 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

“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 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

“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

“I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.”

Knows Should Stills School Asks New York Magazines Ask Me Editors Business School Receptionists

Author:Andrew Tobias

“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

“You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.”

Knows Wells Art School Study Window Eras Grades Grades In School

Author:Julie Taymor

“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.”

Knows Kids School Strong Understanding Differences High School Built Skins Very Strong Thick Thick Skin

Author:Alexander Wang

“Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.”

Knows Littles Bigs School High School Alcohol Phases

Author:Shailene Woodley

“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.”

Knows Feels Doe Kids Today School Answers Class Asking Odd League Ivy Buzz Ivy League Ivy League Schools

Author:Shailene Woodley

“You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!”

Knows School Class Catholic Clown Catholic School

Author:Sofia Vergara

“I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.”

Knows School Law Order Behinds Events Structure Creator Symmetry Madeleines

Author:Tom Shadyac

“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.”

Knows Kind Kids School Used Fall Girl Stuff Hurt Laughing Comedian Hurting Yourself

Author:Matthew Perry

“I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.”

Knows Writing Heart School Educate

Author:Terrence McNally

“I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.”

Knows Years Reason Feelings Wanted School Remember Faces Mother Father Parent Security My Friends Classic Ashamed Typical

Author:Kurt Cobain

“I'm going to continue working as a model. I want to do it all! And I think it's possible to keep working while you go to school. Christy Turlington did it. Natalie Portman did it. Emma Watson just did it! And those are just women in the public eye, but plenty of others do it, too. You know, women around the world are great at multitasking. We do it well.”

Thinking Knows World Want Wells Eye School Models Around The World Plenty Watson Emma Public Eye Multitasking

Author:Karlie Kloss

“I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.”

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Author:Dave Gibbons

“So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'”

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Author:Eli Roth

“School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.”

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Author:Dave Kellett

“I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.”

“What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.”

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Author:Marilyn Manson

“I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.”

Knows Ends School Struggle Drama Cash

Author:Dawn French

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

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Author:Andrew Lau

“Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.”

Ifs Knows School Film Sides Knowing Connections Balls Film School

Author:Michael Patrick Jann

“There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.”

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Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down, but by the time I entered high school, I was confident that I would one day be a writer.”

Knows Writing School Know How One Day High School Decided Daydreaming

Author:Mildred D. Taylor

“I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school, so it was unfamiliar to me, the idea of a German resistance, and yet it was considerable.”

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Author:Bill Nighy

“I was going to be a High School teacher. I was studying at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, up in Canada. I was also acting in a wonderfully supportive theatre community in Edmonton. There's a lot of support for theatre there. So, I was having a great time, but I didn't consider acting as a serious career initially, because even the most successful actors that I know in Edmonton are not super successful. Acting over there is just not a success-oriented career.”

“Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.”

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Author:Horace Mann

“Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.”

Knows Years Humans Ends School Winning Ability Education Study Figures Students Prize Copies

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?”

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Author:John F. Kerry

“I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“You never know what`s going to be big. It`s the fans. It was just a Disney Channel Movie and the kids made it huge... For High School Musical 2 (2007) (TV), we just wanted to have fun and make something together.”

Knows Made Bigs Kids Wanted School Together Fun Fans Tvs Huge High School Musical Made It Having Fun High School Musical Disney Channel

Author:Ashley Tisdale

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