I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.
I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.
Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.
It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
'Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie.
I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.
I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.
If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.
Ragging at its most harmless is embarrassing and silly, but at its worst, it attempts to prevent individual students from independent thinking, attempts, in fact, to eradicate freewill
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
Failing to make it to the list of the best 5 students in class or not being named the team captain should not make anyone feel like they have failed.
Just because something awful happens to someone else, it doesn't mean the issues in your life should take any less importance.
I've invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called 'Iron Age: Council of the Clans,' got so popular among my students that they encouraged me to publish it, which I did.
I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.
