Friendship is definitely the most difficult detail on the globe to elucidate. It is really not something you understand at school. But if you have not realized the which means of friendship, you truly have not realized anything.
I've never been the popular kid in school. I've been a loner my whole life. That's why I have a very low profile.
I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.
As I've started school I have a student-feeling wardrobe and then because I travel a lot, things feel very different for different places and days.
In grad school, a friend and I gave ourselves the task of writing poems in the voice of Beyoncé and Lady Gaga after they did the collaboration for "Telephone." I just kind of kept going. That was quite a while ago - Beyoncé meant something very different then than she does now.
I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.
My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I was going to get educated.
High School Musical is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.
My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.
I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.
I went to drama school at New York University.
As a child, I used to feel much more American than Iranian. Like everyone else at school, I pledged allegiance to the flag. However, after returning to Iran, sadly, I learned about a very different America, an America that most Americans have no idea exists. For the first couple of years this was hard to accept, and it was really painful in some ways.
When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.
I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.
I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.
Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.
I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.
Britannia High is this new, edgy series which follows the lives of seven kids, their friendships, and the troubles they go through at stage school.
We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn, and it was encouraging to find that no Hoosier school district had inflicted his book on its students.
Back in high school, about two years ago, I was in this silly punk band called Ballet for Athletes. We were all trying to take it seriously, and then I realized that "punk" and "serious" aren't really two words you can put in the same sentence - at least, in my opinion.
I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I fall into that too! I learned that in graduate school. You just talk about your music in a specific way, and that separates people from you. But some composers like that. Schoenberg liked that. He wanted to feel that he was making music for an elite few. That's fine for him, but I want to set myself free from that sort of attitude.
I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.
The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.
I do not subscribe to the school of thought that I am leading the presidential polls because of my beautiful legs.
I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.
