"I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job."
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"I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn’t go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see Tommy when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it."
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"I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality."
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"When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way."
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"St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis."
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"I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great."
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"There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form."
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"My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus."
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"In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me."
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"High school football in Detroit was not easy at all. There were talented players everywhere."
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"I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That's why I tell parents that the schools can't do it all themselves. The parents can't come home from work and turn on the TV. That's not being a good parent."
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"Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year."
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"and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart."
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"Film school was a privilege I could not afford."
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"I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English."
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"In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition."
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"That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant."
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"My goal is more youth oriented. I'm super big on education, I was in school to be an elementary education teacher so I'm starting to build schools, getting supplies in schools in Nicaragua."
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"we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to pay good money for nothing. But fire and police protection aren't nothing. ... Roads, bridges, airports, and mass transit systems aren't nothing. National parks, clean air, and clear water aren't nothing. A safe food supply, functioning schools with well-trained teachers, and well-equipped hospitals aren't vaporous apparitions either."
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the perils of dropping out of school."
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