I was very studious.

I'm quite a studious person, I think.

I was very studious and square in college.

Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Most of the stuff I've done is quite serious, so I'm usually studious.

Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.

I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.

Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

I was a studious child, heavily into academics. For the longest time, I wouldn't talk.

There is a slight tomboyish side to me. But I was studious, and I did not bunk classes!

I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper.

I would score well, though I was not studious. I was a naughty kid, but not many know that fact.

I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.

I never thought I could be an actor, as I was always a studious geek and was always interested in mathematics.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

I'm not studious at all. I'm really far from that. I have been better at everything else. I find school terribly tiresome and boring.

Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty. [Lat., Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior.]

Looking back, I was a very good kid, very studious and all. But I would always come out with a quip - and I was sent to the principal's office several times.

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

When I was a kid, I used to do my homework in the living room, where there was a picture window. I was hoping that someone would walk by and see me looking very studious in my living room.

I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.

At home, my parents were quite old, so the surrounding was of elder people. There was no noise. Reading books was encouraged; TV was not encouraged, so I was the geeky, studious type of girl.

As a kid, I was overly studious, overly serious, very academically driven. It was important to me on a cellular level to do well. And then I went to college at Harvard, and I relaxed a little bit.

I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.

After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, 'That's fine. We support you, but you have to go to school,' which was fine because I'm a studious person anyway; I enjoy it.

Throughout elementary and middle school, I was used to hearing other words: Smart. Studious. Well-spoken. Well-read. They became pillars of my self-confidence, enabling me to build myself up on what I contributed rather than what I looked like.

What people are going to be surprised about is that Tia and I are really different. We're nothing like the characters on 'Sister, Sister.' We're kind of swapped. I was the crazy, mischievous one on the show - Tia was the studious, more serious one.

My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.

How do we escape who we are? I think, going to college, I felt freer. I loved the clean slate. I wasn't known as the sort of nerdy, studious girl. I met gay people for the first time in my life. I needed that expansion from a very conservative little town.

From a very young age, boys are taught that real men get into fights, say demeaning things about girls and women, show extraordinary athletic prowess, avoid looking studious, don't do anything to display supposed emotional 'weakness' and prioritise competition over cooperation.

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