School Quotes - Page 34

• In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a little while. And my best friend's older brother would sometimes drive us home in this pimped-out truck, and he'd play all his dirty rap music. We thought we were really cool.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Brother, Rap, Dirty

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• I'm a believer in film school.

  Sean Durkin

  Film, Believer, Film School

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

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• I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

  Fred Durst

  Soccer, Kids, People

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• I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.

  Fred Durst

  Kids, Guy, Fuel

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• Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

  Eliza Dushku

  Boston, Grew Up, Wells

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 27, 2009.

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• So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Jobs, Weekend, News

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• At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

  James Dyson

  Prayer, Boys, Hymns

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• It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Class, Crafts, Want

  "Phillyist Interviews TV Food Network’s Giada de Laurentiis". Interview with Joanne Jordan, phillyist.com. October 19, 2005.

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• I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Children, Home, Acceptance

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• Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Kids, Land

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• My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.

  Steve Earle

  Believe, Eye, Son

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• You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

  Clint Eastwood

  Stupid, Men, Hair

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• It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.

  Roger Ebert

  Looks, Actors, Strikes

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.626, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

  Jenny Eclair

  Dad, Drama, Cat

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• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Home, Grandmother

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• I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Law, Literature, Study

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• I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Party, Kids

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• It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Jobs, Mean, Exercise

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• I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  College, Years, North Carolina

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• I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

  Zac Efron

  People, Musical, Hats

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

  Zac Efron

  Eight, Musical, Week

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• I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

  Dave Eggers

  College, Public School

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• High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.

  Dave Eggers

  Teacher, Reading, Giving

  Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.

  Dave Eggers

  Rights, Ideas, Voice

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• I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Queens, Children, Jersey

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2009.

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