High School Quotes - Page 13

• I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  School, Men, Texas

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• Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

  Paula Deen

  Growing Up, School, Kitchen

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• When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum, in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today and it's called the Internet.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mother, Growing Up, School

  "Legal System Treats Celebs Differently, Dershowitz Says". Interview with Chris Cuomo, sports.yahoo.com. September 17, 2012.

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• I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

  Zooey Deschanel

  School, Singing, Acting

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• Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, School, Unique

  "Zooey Deschanel, 'New Girl' creator discuss the kiss, and the lack of a master plan for the show" by Jeff Jensen, ew.com. February 5, 2013.

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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, School, Thinking

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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

  School, College, People

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

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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, 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, School, Black

  "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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• 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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• 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

  School, Kids, Rich

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

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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

  School, Mean, Thinking

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

  David Duchovny

  Athlete, School, College

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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

  School, Balls, Way

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• 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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• 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

  School, Boston, Grew Up

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

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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, School, Men

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

  Roger Ebert

  School, Looks, Actors

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

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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, School

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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

  School, Eight, Musical

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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, School

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

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• I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

  Paul Feig

  Sex, School, Kids

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks". Interview With Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. April 9, 2012.

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• The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.

  Will Ferrell

  Girl, School, College

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• I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.

  Will Ferrell

  School, One Day, Acting

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. November 08, 2006.

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• I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

  Will Ferrell

  Basketball, Soccer, Regret

  "Will Ferrell Q&A". Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. February 12, 2008.

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