"We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school."
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"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
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"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
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"I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy."
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"Just when I got out of school, I seemed to get hired for a lot of dramatic things, and people tend to remember you how they've seen you the first time."
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"We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves."
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"I dont think anyone can get away from high school unscathed."
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"The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope."
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"I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials."
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"In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it."
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"I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives."
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"I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd."
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"The first day ofschool was always so exciting because you get new shoes and a new backpack, but by the last day of school, you're like, "I don't care. I will wear sweats. Am I done yet?""
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"I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'"
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"I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke. An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes."
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"When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey."
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"But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing."
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"So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever."
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"Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere."
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"We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to school or when can we go out on a date."
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