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  • I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience. -- Abbi Jacobson
  • Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic. -- Mark Romanek
  • I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom. -- Cameron Monaghan
  • I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young. -- Dan Byrd
  • I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school. -- Josh Hutcherson
  • My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow. -- Zachary Levi
  • I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school. -- Thomas Ian Nicholas
  • The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience. -- Alexandra Robbins
  • I went to high school with some wonderful people, but my entire high school experience was just waiting to leave. -- Dana Gould
  • I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me. -- Alicia Witt
  • The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. -- Jacques Derrida
  • My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
  • I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch 'Saved by the Bell' and be like, 'I hope my high school experience is like that.' And it totally wasn't. It sucked. -- Cory Monteith
  • Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were times I didn't feel I had the right friends. My grades were only so-so. -- Frank Oz
  • I grew up not having very many girl friends. Girls tend to be competitive. I actually went to the school 'Mean Girls' was written about, so you can only imagine what my high school experience was like! -- Gillian Zinser
  • I think that everybody, even if they had the best high school experience, there was something about high school. Whether you dropped a pass, or whether you flunked the test, or you didn't go to the prom. -- Neal H. Moritz
  • I loved high school. I had the best high school experience of all time. I know that's not a common feeling, but it's the best. You're like, you know, 14 and expressing yourself on a daily basis creatively? That's pretty incredible. -- Melonie Diaz
  • I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me. -- Brie Larson
  • All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me. -- Sarah Dessen
  • I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience. -- Jonah Hill
  • I'll have a sentence in my head that's kind of beautiful and interesting, but I'm not sure why or where it's coming from. So it's kind of funny, because when people point out patterns or themes, it's the exact opposite of my film school experience. -- Don Hertzfeldt
  • I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long. -- Penn Badgley
  • I didn't have that typical high school experience of feeling ashamed of who I was. I once wore a superman cape and pajamas, and I thought that was awesome - and some people didn't! But some people did, and it was an arts high school, so nobody made me feel bad about who I was. -- Aya Cash
  • It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience. -- Ezra Miller
  • My high school experience was kind of like 'Mean Girls.' It was very much like a bad B movie. 'This is where the jocks sit, and this is where the cheerleaders sit.' And I never really fit in. I guess I was sort of a theatre geek, but the activity that I was most invested in was speech and debate. -- Andie MacDowell
  • I had a fun high school experience. We had a big old prom, we had 400 kids in the graduating class and everything. It was a fun night. I enjoyed the limo ride there the most. Me and a couple friends riding with their dates, everyone was all dressed up, and I was into it, the energy and the anticipation of that entire experience. -- Jonathan Keltz
  • I have no idea what a high school party looks like. I was just with my friend, and we were walking down Venice and there was this gathering of people playing Bongo drums, and so after dinner we sat down with them and played Bongo drums for a while. That's the closest thing I've gotten to a high school experience, meeting strangers and just hanging out with them. -- Ashley Rickards
  • Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. -- Heinrich Heine
  • High school is such a shared experience in North American culture. -- Douglas Coupland
  • Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Drama school is a pretty intense experience, and I think it changes who you are. -- David Tennant
  • Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do. -- Rachel Sklar
  • Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school. -- Daniel L. Doctoroff
  • The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over. -- Caitlin Hale
  • The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need. -- Anne Sullivan
  • I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. -- Peter De Vries
  • I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music. -- Kevin Eubanks
  • I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences. -- Tom Perrotta
  • I mean, the acting school I went to, we did have a social experience, but you know, when it's a bunch of actors, it's everyone self-consciously having a social experience rather than just having a social experience. -- Adam Scott
  • Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. -- Josh Billings
  • A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience. -- J. L. Carr
  • Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
  • High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience. -- Richard Bach
  • I decided to pursue an acting career after having had an incredible experience working on a play in high school. -- Pawel Szajda
  • I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like. -- Vanessa Ray
  • The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it. -- Gary Zukav
  • I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school. -- Hermann Hesse
  • I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience. -- Margot Robbie
  • In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully. -- Wendy Kopp
  • Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education. -- Nicky Gumbel
  • When it comes to Fashion Week, I'm over the too-cool-for-school runway experience with loud music in a raw space that's inconvenient for everyone. -- Rodger Berman
  • Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school. -- Jeremy Davies
  • There's no school you can go to where you can study how to run a record label. Every day was a learning experience. -- Bruce Pavitt
  • Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. -- Lillian Smith
  • Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.' -- Antoine Predock
  • The school of awareness is the school of mysticism. Mysticism is the experience of eternity, of that which lies beyond the physical phenomenal experience. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it. -- Paul Merton
  • I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience. -- Zoe Kravitz
  • I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience. -- Stanislav Grof
  • You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school. -- George Cukor
  • Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.' -- Terry Teachout
  • Experience is the best school,Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there,Offering only one lesson called Life,That you could only finish once you're dead! -- Nelson M. Lubao
  • I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible. -- Peter Riegert
  • While there's no substitute for real experience, I believe it helps to hear and share stories of resourcefulness in action - almost like case studies in school. -- Scott Weiss
  • As the World Turns' was such a great experience and such a great school for me. It was better than any class I could have ever taken. -- Alexandra Chando
  • If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity. -- Haruki Murakami
  • I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man. -- Xavier Samuel
  • At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience. -- Tommy Lee
  • I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. -- Bessie Coleman
  • Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection. -- James Allen
  • When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do. -- Hugh Laurie
  • I went to England for five months when I was in high school, by myself, so I did experience a bit of being the fish out of water. -- Jane Levy
  • In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity. -- David A. Bednar
  • Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. -- Benjamin Franklin
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