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"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."
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"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."

"We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio."

"I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side."

"I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride."

"I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules."

"I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school."

"In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe."

"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 "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is."

"I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do."

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."

"A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know."

"The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't."
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