"The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?"
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"I started Storyline after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a New York Times bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before."
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"I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand."
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"I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?"
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"When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school."
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"My dad said, 'In school, be a Catholic. At home, be a Hindu.' So we did both."
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"People were really staying away from me. And that's kind of when I split up with all my best friends at school - they were going, "Something's happened to her, she's totally weird" - and found my new friends, who were Beatles fans."
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"When I was a kid, my favorite after-school snack was hominy and pickled pigs feet."
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"Yesterday I was on the edge Hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of God Trying to make things better for Him A lover of life in a school for fools Trying to find another way to survive"
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"I'm just looking for things to steal [on working with great actors]. It's like going back to acting school. When you're around people that do it well and you get your head out of your ass, you can really learn something."
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"You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current."
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"I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously."
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"Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore."
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"When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years."
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"Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle. I've seen a lot of those articles and I thought they were unreasonable when I was in school, but they're getting a little bit out of hand now. We should embrace what makes us different, our different styles, our creativity."
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"Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought."
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"The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank."
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"Adversity is a good school."
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"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here."
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"My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to Sunday school with her. I was given this little pamphlet of tiny poems about the natural world, about butterflies and sunsets. My 7-year-old self was so astounded by how these few words were creating pictures and feelings in me."
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