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Michelle Rodriguez

"The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that."

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"The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that."

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"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."

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"Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?"

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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."

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"The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration."

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"My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent."

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"It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs."

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A.E. Samaan

"Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with."

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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

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A.E. Samaan

"So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught."

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"Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested."
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"The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves."
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"I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times."
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"When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things."
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"I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it."
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