“I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.” TryingMadeWantedSchoolGirlStuffSportsHairAcademicUniformsStrictInkVolleyballNunDipOther GirlElementary SchoolSandpaper Author:Zosia Mamet
“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.” KnowsYearsHas BeensPlayAbleSchoolLawStuffTalkingLawyerFasterBeltsLaw SchoolCourtroom Author:Jerry O'Connell
“I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.” WantedSchoolGamesStuffRoomsFootballPaintingWallHigh SchoolFootball GameWeird StuffSchool Experience Author:Brie Larson
“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.” SchoolStuffGoes OnDramaTrainingInternalsMakeupChicagoCakeWardrobeIcingGoodmanIcing On The Cake Author:Michael Rooker
“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.” WritingArtBookInspirationSchoolChoicesStuffViewsPoint Of ViewDialogueCraftsPlotWorkshopsCharacterizationPacingWord Choice Author:Garth Stein
“We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.” PeopleWayDifferentSchoolStuffParentBlackWhiteHigh SchoolDifferent WaysGradesBizarreMexicanGrades In SchoolAll Black Author:Jack White
“I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.” KindSchoolStuffSportsMiddleInvolvedDramaMy FriendsDancingTheatreThings To DoMiddle SchoolCool ThingsPlaying Sports Author:Kara Lindsay
“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.” KnowsKindKidsSchoolUsedFallGirlStuffHurtLaughingComedianHurting Yourself Author:Matthew Perry
“I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.” AgeTodaySchoolGirlNextStuffTearsLike YouOne DaySevenMessPrimariesObsessedJailTwelveEmbarrassedPrimary SchoolReally PopularPopular Girl Author:Charlize Theron
“I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff and being creative and inventive made me happy. Connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy. Trick-or-treating in middle school with a group of my closest friends made me happy. Eating a baked potato after a swim meet made me happy. Pickles made me happy.” MadeMotivationalSchoolNightStuffTalkingSunCreativeGroupsMiddleBuildingInvolvedPeriodsRoseListsI RealizedTricksClosestBe CreativeConnectingMiddle SchoolPicklesClosest Friends Author:Tony Hsieh
“When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.” PeopleKidsSchoolUsedStuffCrazyCatholicDragPro LifeCrazy PeopleCatholic School Author:Tim Heidecker
“My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.” KindWantedSchoolStuffParentMy OwnFiguresDadLet MeMy DadLecturesDyslexic Author:Georgia May Jagger
“I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five monologues that they know by heart, and I never had that. I've done Chekov and I've done Moliere and I've done classic stuff” PeopleThinkingKnowsHeartDoneSchoolStuffFiveDramaEaseClassicMonologues Author:Tavis Smiley
“I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.” RealSchoolStuffCamerasPracticalsFilmmakingOld School Author:David Ayer
“I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have that, while she does all the real-life stuff that counts — making sure the kids are going to school and all that. I married a saint — well, a saint who curses.” WellsDoeRealShowsKidsSchoolStuffWifeMarriedLet MeSaintMy WifeReal LifeCurseShow BusinessMistressAdulation Author:Ray Romano
“I like doing this stuff [stunts] though, it's kind of the whole reason that you want to do the movie. When you're reading it you're like, "Oh, I get to dive out a window? Cool! I get to jump off a building? Great!" So I love doing that stuff, it's like the stuff we used to do in high school to be stupid and fun.” WantKindReasonWholeSchoolUsedReadingFunStuffStupidBuildingHigh SchoolWindow Author:Channing Tatum
“I love improv-ing, you know, from very early on when I started acting the school that I went to and everything was very big on ad-libbing and improv-ing and messing things up, so I feel very comfortable doing stuff like that.” KnowsFeelsBigsSchoolStuffActingComfortableAds Author:Jennifer Lopez
“So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.” PeopleCareSchoolLiteratureStuffCrazySacredInstanceDamnVersesModernismMutantsFree VerseSchool Experience Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden
“I've lived on my own since I was 13 and not been to school and brought a son up who's now 18 and run theatre companies and bought a butcher's shop, learnt guitar by myself, taught myself to sing and that sort of stuff.” RunningSchoolStuffMy OwnCompanyTaughtSonGuitarTheatreShopsButchers Author:Stella Vine
“You know what happens to guys? There's what I call the individual time of their career, and the team time of their career. This is the team time. You don't care about all the other stuff. You just want to live in one place, and watch your kids grow up and go to the same school. You say, 'Hey, maybe I'd better play well and be a good enough guy that they keep me.'” KnowsWantWellsEnoughPlayHappensCareKidsSchoolGuyIndividualGrowsStuffCareersWatchesGrowing UpTeamDon't CareHeyGood EnoughNhl Author:Mike Babcock
“In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.” TryingArtDifferentSchoolTogetherMovingStuffRoomsStyleHigh SchoolJazzContemporaryMartial ArtsWrestlingFlipMixingWindmillsLunchtime Author:Caity Lotz
“I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.” WorldTryingWholeSchoolYoungStuffBitsHurtClassMiddleYouthDramaDeterminedTheatreMiddle ClassUsualHurt MeSociableIt Really HurtsYouth Theatre Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!” HomeSchoolStuffCitiesBreakMillionsTaxesAskingPoliceFundExecutivesOfficersBorrowedPolice OfficerKansasForfeitTax BreaksKansas CityPublic MoneyFree Stuff Author:Jennifer Granholm
“My buddies and I, we all went to law school together, and once we started working in different cities, we all did crazy stuff, and we'd write e-mails to each other about the stuff we would do. And my friends thought my e-mails were really funny and they said, "Dude, why don't you put this up on a Web site. You know people would love to read this."” PeopleKnowsWritingSaidDifferentSchoolTogetherLawStuffCitiesCrazyMy FriendsMailSiteThey SaidBuddyLaw SchoolLove To Read Author:Tucker Max
“I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.” WayFirstsKidsSchoolFunStuffCuttingWifeDadFirst TimeMy DadMy WifeCooksMakersItalianKnivesSauceOld SchoolPastaHomemadeNoodlesItalian FoodMeatballsMy Wife And Kids Author:Joey Fatone
“I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.” SchoolStuffRocksCollegeInvolvedBandHigh SchoolDancingSingersPunkPunk RockRock Bands Author:Brian Dietzen
“When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.” LongSchoolNightStuffFiguresLong TimeSaturdayHarvardSaturday NightSaturday Night LivePre School Author:Bill Hader
“I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A.” WritingYearsTwoStoriesWould BeSchoolStuffClassHigh SchoolMovedTwo YearsDaydreaming Author:Charlie McDermott
“I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.” Would BeWantedSchoolStuffParentShareWorstStupidHealthyHigh SchoolFairsWorst ThingsDisappointFair ShareHealthy Fear Author:Christine Lakin
“I'm not to eager to play tennis in my spare time. I'm more interested in doing gym work and stuff like that. We have a lot of schools and courts around where I live, so if I really want to play I don't need to go too far.” IfsWantNeedsPlaySchoolStuffCourtTennisGymSparesSpare Time Author:Lleyton Hewitt
“I gave a talk on gender stuff at Facebook one morning and a man didn't come. It was optional; he didn't have to come. But he sent a note saying, "I missed your meeting because I drove my kids to school so my wife could do something else. Thank you for making that possible." I think that employee is a loyal employee for Facebook and I think more companies should want that kind of loyalty.” ThinkingMenWantShouldKindKidsSchoolStuffCompanyMorningWifeMeetingsNotesGenderMy WifeLoyaltyEmployeeLoyalOptionalMissed YouI Missed You Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“I think regular school is harder than my job. You have to deal with kids picking on you, and you wanting to look good and all this stuff. It was way too much pressure.” ThinkingWayLooksKidsSchoolJobsStuffDealsToo MuchHarderPressure Author:Selena Gomez
“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.” YearsDoeArtStatesEnoughRunningSchoolStuffClassFourCollegeLuckyPhotographyTestsGradesFour YearsGreyHippieArt SchoolBlah Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of the movie in one picture. Usually, I start my stuff on the telephone. Right by the telephone I've got a book of doodles. When I'm on the phone, I'll be doing a drawing eventually.” LongArtI CanBookSchoolStuffLong TimeDrawsPhonesDrawingTelephonesArt School Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“Most kids come home from school. They don't go to their TVs first. They go to the Internet. They check their emails, or some blogs, or some sites. Then they go watch TV. Other people are at work all day 9-5 in front of a computer. They see certain clips. We're not going to hide the fact that people use the Internet. We're going to try to be as interactive as possible with our fans. I'm currently on Twitter and Facebook and Flicker and Dig. I'm on all that stuff.” PeopleTryingFirstsFactsUseHomeKidsSchoolCertainStuffWatchesFansFrontsTvsInternetComputerChecksComing HomeSiteEmailBlogsClipFlickerInteractiveTwitter And Facebook Author:Jimmy Fallon
“When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.” SchoolGamesStuffHoursGrowing UpGrowingImagineComputerClubsChessLoudLatinCampsNerdOutcastArcades Author:Chris Hardwick
“I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she writes about are stuff I wish was there for me when I was in high school, and I'm so happy she really cares about her female fans. She's not catering to a male audience and is writing music for other girls.” ThinkingWritingCareSchoolGirlWishStuffAudienceFansHigh SchoolFemaleMalesCleverThemeOther GirlWriting MusicCatering Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?” IfsThinkingTryingLittlesArtDoneSchoolTurnsStuffBitsCareersTakenWorstLittle BitCookingShopsWorst ThingsSewingArt MusicWoodworkingWelding Author:Temple Grandin
“Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it would be a remarkable student who did, since it took mathematicians a couple of thousand years to sort out the notion of a limit, and I think most of us who call ourselves professional mathematicians really only understand it when we start to teach the stuff, either in graduate school or beyond.” ThinkingGivingYearsWould BeSchoolStuffTeachTeacherStudentsCoupleThousandLimitsStandardsNotionDefinitionsRemarkableGraduatesMathematicianThousand YearsGraduate SchoolFormal Education Author:Keith Devlin
“I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.” WayArtSchoolStuffIncludingVariousMy WayMechanicArt SchoolFillersAuto Mechanic Author:Fred Tomaselli
“I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.” WayYearsSelfAbleSchoolStuffMusicLaughingGoneWonderfulHappenedCrazyAdultsFairsCatholicHealFormerTherapyShellsNaiveCatholic SchoolPhysical Therapy Author:Lady Gaga
“I've never gone to school for recording. I wish I understood it more. School's been hard, learning things has been hard, because of the A.D.H.D., or dyslexia, or whatever you want to call it, but I know how to come up with stuff to bring it together.” KnowsWantHas BeensHardSchoolTogetherWishStuffKnow HowGoneUnderstoodCome UpDyslexia Author:Hank Williams III
“If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom, and all that stuff. There's this weird politeness that we have, as a society. You don't want to make it hard for anybody.” IfsKnowsWantHardSchoolStuffCollegeMomHigh SchoolSolidarityPolitenessYour MomHometown Author:John Krasinski
“I found a great deal of relief and excitement watching comics when I was very young. My grandmother was very into them and so was my grandfather. They had a profound effect on me, so I just found myself watching comedians on the after-school shows: Merv Griffin and that kind of stuff.” KindShowsSchoolYoungFoundStuffDealsEffectsProfoundComedianExcitementReliefGrandmotherGrandfatherShow MeMy GrandmotherMy GrandfatherAfter School Author:Marc Maron
“I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.” SchoolStuffRocksListeningStonesHip HopHipsHopsRollingRolling StonesOld School Author:Mac Miller
“I LOVE WAL-MART. I CONSIDER MY JOKES TO BE VERY JEUVINILLE. STUFF A 14 YEAR OLD WOULD LAUGH AT BECAUSE THATS THE SENCE OF HUMOR I HAVE. ALL THE STUFF I TALK ABOUT MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR CHURCH GROUPS HOWEVER WAL-MART AINT SUNDAY SCHOOL. AS LONG AS I DIDNT USE OFFENSIVE FOUL LANGUAGE I KNEW ID BE FINE. WAL-MART GETS IT, THATS WHY THEY BLOW AWAY THE COMPETITION. BESIDES ITS THERE STORE THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT. THATS AMERICA BABY!” WantYearsMayLongUseSchoolAmericaLanguageStuffCan DoChurchLaughingGroupsBabyFineJokesCompetitionBlowStoresAppropriateSundayOffensiveFoulSunday SchoolFoul Language Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.” ThinkingNeedsKindSchoolGuyStuffHalfOpinionLaughingMinutesInformationTenPercentHigh SchoolAccessBarsDumbIdiotMake SenseLoudRealisingDumb GuyInformed Opinions Author:Bill Burr