I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.
When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.
My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.
Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.
I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.
Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.
When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.
Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.
I went to school at Colorado State. I finished my degree in pre-medicine and nutrition with aspirations of actually going to graduate school in medicine, which I didn't.
After high school, I had $2,000 saved, and I packed everything I could into my '95 Nissan Sentra with no air-conditioning, and I drove out to L.A.
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all that kind of stuff.
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
I'm still a tomboy at heart. In high school, I was the girl in the baggy jeans and Timberlands, but I was also at the hairdresser's every week.
I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school.
My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.
After my grandfather began to be successful, he returned to the village where he was born and founded a primary school.
The discipline, particularly in these urban schools for the poor, it's not controlled by the administration - they're controlled by the police. This is an expression of a racist logic that has now seeped directly into schools.
