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"My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind."
"I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'"
"The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed."
"Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children."
"I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial."
"As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books."
"The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else."
"My parents were kids when I was born. My mother was 16. My father was 17, and they got married in high school. And they split a few years later. When they split was when all that was happening also, and he - they were just coming into themselves. But they remained friends."
"How do I transform and be believable as Krogstad in "A Doll's House" or Sir Peter Teazle in "A School for Scandal"."
"I got into [acting] so late because of sports. And then when I was in grad school, I sort of got lulled into basically forgetting I was black, in - meaning that everyone you play at a conservatory, 95 percent of the characters are non-black."
"I wanted to get that scholarship to - a division one scholarship and play ball and go to school for free. And that, to me, was - I was always about getting to that next step. If I could get to that next place, then I could figure out essentially what to do with being in that space and how to manage my time and handle those - handle all the benefits of being in that space in a way that would get me to the next place."
"Gay, straight - whatever - adolescents in high school and coming out of junior high, that's such a difficult, awkward period and kids can be so cruel and mean."
"In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth."
"I was a complete outsider in high school."
"Dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you."
"Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with."
"Another thing about me dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you."
"Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?"
"I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms."
""Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do."
