Junior High Quotes - Page 3

• If there is hell, it was modeled after junior high school.

  Lewis Black

  School, Juniors, Hell

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• The book is not a cut-and-paste job. Yeah, I have a blog, but the material in the book is all new. The blog deals with my life now, whereas as the book starts a few years before my birth until right about the end of junior high. And yes, I am contractually obliged to mention this as much as possible (each time I do, HarperCollins sends me a free pizza).

  Jason Mulgrew

  Jobs, Book, Cutting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.

  Michelle Stuart

  School, Juniors, Archaeology

  "Michelle Stuart’s Mythologies". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2016.

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• In junior high I read a lot of Stephen King, whose Americana approach to writing was often about "the terror next door" and at the same time I was reading a lot of Clive Barker, who was on the other end of the horror pendulum: insidious and disturbingly psychological. I found it fascinating how these two authors came at horror from two totally different perspectives.

  Bryan Fuller

  Kings, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for now.

  Bridget Carpenter

  Kings, Father, Grateful

  Source: collider.com

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• Well, the film initially - we had decided to pair joy with fear because I don't know about you - for me fear was a major motivator in junior high. So we thought there's probably some good stuff there... As the film went on, we had developed all these great scenes that were really funny, but in the third act, it wasn't adding up to anything.

  Pete Docter

  Joy, Juniors, Stuff

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2015.

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• For some reason, when I was in junior high school, my friends and I had, like, a cologne-stealing ring.

  James Franco

  School, Juniors, Stealing

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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• When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Jobs, Drama, School

  "Harry Shum Jr: I Love That People See Dancers as Artists Now". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

  Danny McBride

  Teacher, Juniors, Classic

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

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• It was always just trying to move to the next limit. I didn't think about making the major leagues - every kid has that dream, I had it, but when I was in Little League I just wanted to make the junior high team. When I was in junior high, I wanted to make the Varsity team.

  Jim Abbott

  Dream, Team, Moving

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The exciting thing about getting a label together and doing press for it is that hopefully some 15-year-old girl who is the only feminist in her junior-high class will hear about it and be like, "Oh, cool, I hadn't heard of that, I'm going to check it out."

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Years, Class

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.

  Suzanne Gordon

  School, Years, People

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• I am wrestling with the overalls trend. I wore so many pairs in junior high, and no one thought they were cute. Perhaps I'll try them cuffed with a tasteful crop top?

  Gillian Jacobs

  Cute, Wrestling, Trying

  "Do You Sometimes Mispronounce Designer Names? This TV Star Does and Totally Owns It". Interview with Fawnia Soo Hoo, www.glamour.com. April 29, 2014.

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• I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

  Sara Canning

  School, Years, Childhood

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• At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Education, Teacher, Encouragement

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• I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

  George Smoot

  Football, School, Track

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• The disconnect between what's going on in schools and what's allowed to be shown in movies has gotten really bad because girls in junior high are having oral sex and getting bracelets for it, and in movies everybody's got to be 30 years old to have sex. It's very bizarre.

  Amy Heckerling

  Girl, Sex, School

  "Interview with Vamps Director Amy Heckerling". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2012.

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• A lot of the issues I faced in junior high was what got me into animation. It was easier to sit on the side and draw cartoons than to engage with people.

  Pete Docter

  Issues, People, Cartoon

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. I met a guy named Paul Luchessi who has a high school jazz program in Fresno. And Bob Athayde who runs a junior high program in Lafayette, California. And man, we walked into these schools and Paul Luchessi said, "Jon is the composer of Paradox." A hundred or something kids started to applaud. "What? You guys know that? I'm so blown away.

  Jon Gordon

  Running, School, Kids

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• My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

  Gus Van Sant

  Teacher, Art, Gay

  Interview with Tony Dushane, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2008.

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• What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

  Susan Orlean

  Ideas, Use, Juniors

  "Miss Popularity" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2011.

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• Luis is right there.” I point to the corner of the yard, where my little brother is the centre of attention doing imitations of barnyard animals. I have yet to inform him that talent isn’t as much of a chick magnet when you get into junior high.

  Simone Elkeles

  Brother, Animal, Juniors

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• When I was in junior high I read a lot of Danielle Steele. So I always assumed that the day I got engaged I'd be naked, covered in rose petals, and sleeping with the brother of the man who'd kidnapped me.

  Jenny Lawson

  Brother, Sleep, Men

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

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• I went to public school up until junior high.

  Kristen Stewart

  School, Juniors, Public School

  Interview with Dennis Hopper, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2009.

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• aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: “What are you thinking?” It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.

  David Levithan

  School, Thinking, Asking

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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