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"There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do."
"I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows."
"To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge."
"I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering."
"A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school."
"I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now."
"All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove."
"I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing."
"I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down."
"If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach."
"[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf."
"When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life."
"I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church."
"In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments."
"I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits."
"Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America."
"My days are so busy with school and football, it's not often that I get out, anyway. But when I do, I like to meet people."
"I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school. It was more like a college. I'm moving more in that direction, just kind of merchandising my name."
"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation."
"The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink."
