I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s.
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.
My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts.
After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.
Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
I'd been wanting to work with James McAvoy since I was in drama school. I suppose there are parallels in that we're Scottish, we went to the same drama school and share the same agent, but aside from that, he's someone I've looked up to.
The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resource...
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.
Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'
Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
...don't be afraid to fall. Your wings will catch you.
I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.
It was only in the middle—between the immense and the minute—that sadness seemed to exist.
My name is Awesome Amazing. My middle name is Lee.
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
