I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
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.
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
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'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.
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 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.
