School Quotes - Page 33

• Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Stars, Growing Up, Kids

  "Five things I know about style: Zooey Deschanel". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Inspiration, Thinking, Interesting

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• I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  College, People, Gone

  "Middle school girls 'spit in my face,' Zooey Deschanel recalls". www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

  Zooey Deschanel

  Mom, Dad, Funny Motivational

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• I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Funny, Hands, Jumping

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• I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Kids, Class, Littles

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• I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

  Junot Diaz

  Writing, High School, Late

  "The return of the young master". Interview with Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2008.

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• I love “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” That was like the only black book we read in high school...

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Black, Malcolm X Autobiography

  "Junot Diaz Interview: Prize-Winning Author Talks High School, Being A Nerd". Interview with Marisa Spiegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2012.

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• One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Mistake, Years, Fundamentals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

  Joan Didion

  Powerful, Book, Reading

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• I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.

  Matt Dillon

  Fun, Kids, Class

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• High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.

  Beth Ditto

  Kids, Rich, Poor

  'Ask me anything!' by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.

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• I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

  Snoop Dogg

  Mother, Drama, Character

  "Snoop Dogg: 'Women are getting empowered. Now I have a daughter, I understand'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

  Snoop Dogg

  Rapper, People, Different

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

  John Doolittle

  Bullying, Decision, Form

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• I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

  Rita Dove

  Mean, Thinking, Awards

  "Rita Dove On New Anthology, Advice For Young Poets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 2, 2012.

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• It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

  Rita Dove

  Needs, Sometimes, Unfortunate

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• In high school and college, I was an athlete.

  David Duchovny

  Athlete, College, High School

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  The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Real, Long

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• Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.

  Tony Dungy

  Children, Growing Up, Dad

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• I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.

  Tony Dungy

  Balls, Way, Buddy

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• I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

  Lena Dunham

  Creative, Bed, Hot

  "Lena Dunham talks Girls with Most Powerful Women". Interview with Soledad O’Brien, fortune.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

  Trevor Dunn

  Punk, Hated, Metals

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• Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Actresses

  "Leader of the pack". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2000.

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• I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've never been catty or a prima donna, so I never had problems. I always had my seat at the cafeteria when I came back from acting.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Kids, Acting, Extroverts

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