I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

When I was in grade school I was always the guy that got 20 or 18 points. Even back then, I would lead my team in scoring.

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

When I say something like "back when I was in high school," I usually mean: "back when I was supposed to be in high school.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.

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.

I've always been the girl the kids in school would be like, 'What is she wearing?' Then eventually some trends would stick.

Its amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools.

I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.

We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.

I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions.

I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Work hard in school and listen to your parents. They really do want the very best for you and have been where you're going.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.

Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.

I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

Besides P.E., geography was my best class in high school. I was in this gifted class when I was younger, and it was wicked!

Our schools are filled with this potential energy, and we need to create an environment for that energy to manifest itself.

Perhaps there was a correlation between taking prayer and Bible study out of schools, and what has happened in our society.

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.

High School Musical is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

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