In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
‐‐ Carlos Slim
In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.
‐‐ Cathy Rigby
In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.
‐‐ Chris Pine
In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
‐‐ Sam Trammell
In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant
In high school I spent most of my time in jeans and T-shirts or Juicy sweats. We're such a laid-back town. I mean, people wore bikinis under their clothes half the time, so you didn't really get dressed up to go to school.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad
In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named Mike.
‐‐ Mike McCue
In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it because I was in marching band, and we were promised food if we played, and they broke their promise. It was my first and only heist, motivated by justice and hunger.
‐‐ Greg van Eekhout
In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A.
‐‐ Dianna Agron
In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.
‐‐ Molly Tarlov
In high school, I tried to cook dinner for a girl, and it was horrific. It was at her house. I was trying to make pork chops with my mom's recipe, just trying to be Mr. Awesome, like, 'Yeah, I cook, too.' But I just burned everything. There was smoke everywhere.
‐‐ Kyle Bornheimer
In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.
‐‐ Zoey Deutch
In high school, I used to teach guitar and fix computers by the hour. I was looking for some way to make some cash, so I actually learned how to play guitar in order to try to teach it.
‐‐ Jon Oringer
In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.
‐‐ Adam Sandler
In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.
‐‐ Meg Cabot
In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd.
‐‐ Mark Feuerstein
In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice.
‐‐ Nellie McKay
In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.
‐‐ Jenna Dewan
In high school I was an outcast... I wasn't cool to hang out with. I ate my lunch in a bathroom stall because that was the one place I could go where I wouldn't been seen.
‐‐ Shay Mitchell
In high school, I was doing a skit for forensics and people started laughing, more than I was prepared to deal with. It was a surprise.
‐‐ Kristen Schaal
In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.
‐‐ Jennie Garth
In high school, I was lucky enough to have a big group of girlfriends that have really inspired a lot of the stories in my books. I'm still close with my friends from that time, so it's never very hard to put myself back into that place, that voice.
‐‐ Sarah Dessen
In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.
‐‐ Mike Shinoda
In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.
‐‐ Lucas Grabeel
In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.
‐‐ Charles Mingus
In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.
‐‐ Rashida Jones
In high school, I was one of the cofounders of New Kids on the Block my freshman year in high school. But I also started studying theatre in high school my freshman year as well. So throughout high school, I was actually doing both.
‐‐ Donnie Wahlberg
In high school I was president of the Student Council, and I ended up doing a lot of speeches. After you do a few in front of different schools, you get really comfortable talking in front of an audience.
‐‐ Osric Chau
In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.
‐‐ Amy Adams
In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.
‐‐ Jennifer Pahlka
In high school, I was the biggest procrastinator in the world.
‐‐ Kristin Kreuk
In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.
‐‐ Poppy Z. Brite
In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!
‐‐ Hillary Scott
In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.
‐‐ Michael Keaton
In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.
‐‐ Meg Cabot
In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.
‐‐ Eugene H. Peterson
In high school, I was very unpopular.
‐‐ Rene Russo
In high school I went on about three dates.
‐‐ Seann William Scott
In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods. Now I go hiking with a bunch of my comedy buddies. We talk about our emotions. I also do a lot of writing on hikes, just to get the blood flowing and the ideas moving.
‐‐ Nick Kroll
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
‐‐ Constance Baker Motley
In high school, I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch, and once I graduated from business school at USC, I started a company with my partner and had a nine-to-seven job.
‐‐ Rob Kardashian
In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them.
‐‐ Colin Trevorrow
In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.
‐‐ Bo Burnham
In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.
‐‐ Eli Broad
In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.
‐‐ Selma Blair
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
‐‐ Mike Krzyzewski
In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute.
‐‐ Ashley Tisdale
In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.
‐‐ Jane Hamilton
In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
‐‐ Aaron Lazar