- Banquet
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- Nov 07, 2020
School Quotes
On learning, growing up and finding your own pace.
These quotes cover school in different forms: a childhood spent in Sunday school, being a late bloomer among faster-moving classmates, and skipping formal film training entirely to learn a craft directly. For lighter school-themed content, see our Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really like anyone in my high school - not like that, anyway. I had a lot of guy friends but no one that I had feelings for.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I love more than anything in the entire world is making music. It's what I studied in school.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.
- Charter Schools
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's just so much girl-on-girl hate. It happens to start in high school, and then it builds and gets bigger and bigger, and it seems like for some reason there's this mentality that if another girl does well, she's taking my spot.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up doing musical theater. I went to a school for musical theater, so that was always what I wanted to do growing up.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apart from having heart surgery as a baby, I had a pretty normal upbringing. I attended mainstream school and did gymnastics and dancing.
- Freshman Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
- Component
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- Nov 07, 2020