Devon Aoki quote: "I think if there ever was any point that I felt that I was neglecting school in any way, ... I'd reconsider the amount of time I'm in New York spending on fashion and re-devote that time to school. I want to graduate from my high school as a good student, rather than a good model."

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always go...
TAMSIN EGERTON

When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
HALSEY

My plan was I just knew, I think the first time I was in a high school play, and I liked the feeling...
DAVID HEDISON

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model Unite...
RAINN WILSON

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Cl...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE

School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT

I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinna...
WARREN GILES

It's a big possibility. My freshman and sophomore years of high school, I felt that [Connecticut] wa...
LUOL DENG

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive...
ANGELA BASSETT

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
OSCAR ROBERTSON

I can't think of anything I would rather spend my time on. I really believe my job as a School Board...
ANDREA MESSINA

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the ...
DEMETRI MARTIN

I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went thro...
BRITTANY SNOW

I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated f...
MARLO THOMAS

I was heartened by the amount of time he spent talking about competitiveness. To hear him focus on m...
CARL GUARDINO

In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it...
RASHIDA JONES

After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get...
SHAY MITCHELL

I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental sch...
MARK SPITZ

I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan...
ED OXENBOULD

There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... ...
DABNEY COLEMAN

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, ...
JIM BROWN

I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, ...
JIMMY DEAN

When I was mayor of New York, my views changed. I began as mayor of New York City thinking that I co...
RUDY GIULIANI

I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I w...
MICHAEL HEIZER

I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your hig...
VANESSA MINNILLO

I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your hig...
VANESSA LACHEY

I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got ...
MERRITT WEVER

I majored in theater, but it was pretty obvious right off that I wasn't any good as an actor. I'd be...
CHAD BEGUELIN

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a ...
GEORGE FOREMAN

Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well ...
MARC DAVIS

I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It...
DAVID BYRNE

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenil...
MILES TELLER

I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD....
BRUCE BEUTLER

I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y...
CHARLIE EBERSOL

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind...
LOUIS C. K.

I feel as good as I?ve ever felt, as good as I felt in Little League or middle school.
DAVID KNOX

I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a probl...
DEBORAH ELLIS

I always wanted to have a family - that was one of my big wishes. And in school, I'd taken drama...
JERRY HALL

When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good stu...
THOMAS MCDONELL

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just l...
OLIVIA COLMAN

Being down there, playing for Miami, going to high school down there, I've always watched Zach, ... ...
DAN MORGAN

I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I w...
CASSIE VENTURA

I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my scho...
IMTIAZ ALI

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until th...
DAVID CONE

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
ROBIN WILLIAMS

In my mind, a middle school is not much more than a glorified junior high. The only difference is th...
DON PUDER

When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play i...
FLEA

I actually think that there is definitely a value in studying art at an art school. I myself went to...
BORIS VALLEJO

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
ERIC BOGOSIAN

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offer...
CHANDRA WILSON

On that day, I felt like at any other school that same incident could have happened. Yes, it was a s...
JAMES WARD

I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding ...
JOSEPH MAWLE

I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I...
I. KING JORDAN

By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were get...
ANNETTE BENING

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I...
FERID MURAD

I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

Not only did he unfairly become a prime suspect of an investigation into your alleged injuries that ...
DAVID STEINBERG

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable...
SIDNEY ALTMAN

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, an...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI

I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don...
TIM DEKAY

When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates to...
MARTIN O'MALLEY

I came out and knocked down my first couple shots and from then on every shot felt good. I haven't f...
CURTIS JERRELLS

Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll...
LEE ATWATER

I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing...
ALEXIS OHANIAN

I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our ...
SLOANE CROSLEY

I was a good student, but I didn't like school.
ASHLEY BENSON

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.
JOHN CENA

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the Uni...
RUTH J. SIMMONS

I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not ap...
ALLISON TOLMAN

I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade sch...
JACK RAMSAY

When I was in elementary school, I'd see Nate on stage in high school. I always wanted to do a show ...
JUSTIN BEGLE

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.
NICK FROST

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking...
TED NELSON

I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have...
MALIN AKERMAN

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 1...
HANK AZARIA

When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col...
STACEY FARBER

You're imprinted in high school more than any other point in your life.
BUD GRANT

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. ...
JACQUELINE BISSET

When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to...
WILL.I.AM

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from Califo...
HENRY KRAVIS

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would ha...
SPALDING GRAY

I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was...
BING GORDON

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
BAM MARGERA

There came a point sometime during high school when I started thinking about exploring acting as a c...
ROBERTO AGUIRE

I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I ...
MONA SIMPSON

I felt on the periphery of high school culture; one of those invisible creatures that walk the campu...
KHALED HOSSEINI

He obviously had good coaching at Toledo. Everybody liked him (in high school). He went to a great p...
LARRY HAYLOR

I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.
JACOB BATALON

In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a we...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, ...
LAURA SLADE WIGGINS

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to uni...
BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN

When I decided to go to art school, it wasn't necessarily something I thought I needed. No one t...
MICKALENE THOMAS

We have perhaps the least amount of movement of any school around. Rarely ever do I get to hire a ne...
KATHERINE HOLCOMBE

I became used to it. At that time, you are 18 years old. You don't think it's real. I was just tryin...
CHARLES PETERSON

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dys...
CAITLYN JENNER

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
RACHAEL LEIGH COOK

I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, sin...
HAMILTON E. JAMES

At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.
KURT ELLING

I think if there ever was any point that I felt that I was neglecting school in any way, ... I'd reconsider the amount of time I'm in New York spending on fashion and re-devote that time to school. I want to graduate from my high school as a good student, rather than a good model.

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