Stalin is dead! Stalin is dead! No school today!” we yelled. “Stalin is dead! No school today...” was a chant to linger in my ears for years to come.
It was another thing you didn't learn at a top-drawer school. Bickering is like baldness or lousy gifts. It runs in families.
Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.
If there's one thing Robert had learned in three weeks at Lovecraft Middle School, it's that nothing was impossible.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
In high school I used to sing in the shower. None of the football players liked it, because they were all naked and I was in a tuxedo.
My face is pizza-shaped, and my acne in high school was like pepperoni. Thank God it was carry out and not delivery.
Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.
I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way.
My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.
I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.
I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
He has ' '. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' ' . He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one.
My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.
But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.
I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
It's one of my biggest internal struggles - the whole schooling system in London and the fact that my kids are going to a posh school. It freaks me out.
I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.
