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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
I'm just going to go to schools and give inspirational speeches about our bodies. I'll just wear flowing dresses and talk way quieter than I can.
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of all ages on a regular basis.
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.
Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.
Film schools are not rigorous enough. They let things get by and kids get out there and they think they are saying something and doing something.
You dont grow up in a town of 700 thinking youre going to be an actress. I loved doing [school] plays, but it was just something to keep me busy.
'Lizzie McGuire' was my big thing when I was younger. I did buy some pencils and back-to-school stuff of hers because she was on it. I loved her.
I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go.
I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
In the rolling sea of new state, new school, new dangers everywere, Daniel was the only rock she had to hold on to.And he was adout to leave her?
I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.
I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.
I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.
In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.
As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.
For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?
Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.
I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
May death be no more than the bell that sounds when school is over, and going home, may I find that I had laid up my treasure in the right place.
With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.
I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.
I went to high school in Redondo Beach, so a lot of people that went to my school are from Inglewood or Gardena. My best friend lives in Gardena.
I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
All of my friends at drama school were still sat on the floor doing voice exercises and I was doing scenes with David Tennant and Catherine Tate.
The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.
Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.
I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.
I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it.
So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.
Divorce is the biggest drain, outside of school fees, and nobody wins. People think it is always in the woman's favour, but it is not necessarily.
In fact, I'm softer than I've ever been, including that unfortunate semester in high school when I simultaneously discovered Krispy Kreme and pot.
My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.
I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.
All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.
Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!
I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.