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"At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers."
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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."

"The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type."

"When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays."

"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."

"When asked 'What do we need to learn this for?' any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness."

"You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together."

"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."

"I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him."

"I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off."
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"People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate."

"I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it."

"There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs."

"Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys."

"People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different."

"If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different."

"I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother."
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