I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.
The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.
I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!'
As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
I'm glad the NCAA is pushing back the 3-point line a foot. I'm a big supporter of the 3-point shot; it's exciting. I hope the high schools adopt the same rule.
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Sax...
I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.
My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.
When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.
Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.
My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'
My dad is into movies, and they let me watch movies. I was obsessed with Monty Python when I was in preschool - I don't know why.
This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empt...
