My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.
I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.
I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.
I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.
I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.
I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.
By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
I would rather aim high and miss the mark than low and make it.
My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both.
People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.
It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.
We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.
Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.
I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.
