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“I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.”

Giving Trying Wells Enough School Form Left Easy Break Support Trouble High School Twenties Forgotten Our Family Credence

Author:Julia Leigh

“When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.”

World Bigs School Girl Left Cutting Regret Fool Around The World Australia Bloody Life Regret

Author:Ben Nicholson

“When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.”

Wanted School Artist Left Painter

Author:Jonathan Pryce

“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

“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

“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

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

School Left Kitchen

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“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.”

Want Feels Stills Done School Used Left Understanding My Friends Work Out Grades Hanging Out Gym Nails Malls Left Out Sixth Grade School Friends Nails Done

Author:Aly Raisman

“I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.”

Trying Children School Left Felt Sides Term Common Protect Stones Common Sense Pragmatism Erring

Author:John B. Larson

“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.”

Way Feels Trying Mean Feelings Kids School Used Left Perfect Teacher High School Rain My Way Defeated Overwhelmed Homework Left Out Perfect Days Feeling Down Cool Kid Feeling Overwhelmed

Author:Kara Lindsay

“Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.”

People Looks Heart Government School Jobs Lost Left Demand Elsewhere Hawaii Good Job Unreasonable Good School Lost Heart

Author:Linda Lingle

“I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.”

School Form Left Centre

Author:Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

“I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.”

Problem Home School Young Mother Father Left Health Picks Nervous Whooping Cough

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.”

Children Enough Kids School Left Behinds Perception Left Behind Marketplace No Child Left Behind

Author:Mark Jackson

“Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. These deposits have found their way into educational institutions in the form of studies, distinct courses of study, distinct types of schools.”

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.”

Men Said Play Facts Wanted School Father Left Stage Football Fool Ass Pro Football

Author:Bill Cosby

“I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.”

School Left Waiting Progress Car Bus Lots Of Money

Author:Steven Morrissey

“A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of those things ever were.”

Moments School Science Left Cutting Buddhism Birth Wave Boards That Moment Surfer

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I want to fully fund education, No Child Left Behind, special-needs education. And that's how we're going to be more competitive, by making sure our kids are graduating from school and college.”

Want Needs Children Kids School Left Behinds Special College Fund Graduates Left Behind Special Needs No Child Left Behind

Author:John F. Kerry

“I hadn't even thought about what I wanted to do when I left school because I was only 14 when I started modelling.”

Wanted School Left Modelling

Author:Kate Moss

“For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money.”

Children Shows School Left Results Behinds Return Decades Left Behind Public School School System No Child Left Behind

Author:George W. Bush

“At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.”

School Actors Left Teacher Thrown Classroom Clown Naughty

Author:David Harewood

“I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.”

Thinking Kind School Literature Left Wish Decision Gone University Knack English Literature

Author:Brendan Coyle

“The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.”

Mind School Left Drama Lucky Longevity Of My Mind

Author:Conleth Hill

“I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.”

Believe Humor School Past Left Religious Effort Generations Positive Atheism Vulnerable Collectives Squares Sincerely Expulsion Past Generations Collective Effort

Author:Jerry Falwell

“I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.”

School Left Class Blue Working Class Public School Scholarship Collars Exam Uneducated Blue Collar Educated And Uneducated

Author:Rupert Graves

“I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.”

Knows Writing Stills Wanted School Left Causes Nouns

Author:Nick Frost

“I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.”

Ifs Want Problem School Actors Left Huge Hated Canada Auditions

Author:Brad Goreski