Olesya Rulin quote: "Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my car every day in my senior year. I went to ballet. I was a ballerina, so I was very focused on that. You kind of have to be. That was two-thirds of my week, going to ballet class."

When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus ...
CHANDRA WEST

Through ballet I was fortunate to find a place to escape, a refuge from my feelings of being an outs...
HEATHER WHITESTONE

Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image eng...
DARCEY BUSSELL

I loved gymnastics, and my gymnastics teacher said ballet was essential to help my dance routines in...
DARCEY BUSSELL

It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high ...
MARY CHENEY

I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of b...
JULIET MILLS

Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, ...
MISTY COPELAND

Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
BETH HENLEY

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do...
MISTY COPELAND

I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed v...
BIG SEAN

I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancer's body a...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

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SCOTT EASTWOOD

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ELIZABETH DEBICKI

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WENDY WHELAN

I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all...
KEITH STANFIELD

I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go t...
SHAILENE WOODLEY

Throughout my childhood, I did a form of Irish dancing that was kind of the precursor to 'Riverd...
LAURA DONNELLY

My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had gr...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE

I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little ...
D. B. SWEENEY

My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
CAMERON RUSSELL

There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone w...
ADAM LAMBERT

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played...
JENNIFER GARNER

My junior year was a stepping stone to my senior season. That was my first full season running. I kn...
A.J. ELLISON

I was mad that the school was closing. I'd have to find new friends, ... most of my friends came bac...
MAURICE BROWN

I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater C...
MARGARET QUALLEY

I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my se...
MATTHEW PERRY

I never blindly roamed with a team just for the sake of social labeling or fitting in. I was never p...
SUZY KASSEM

In fall 2007, I stood at the midway point of completing my undergraduate studies at Columbia. I stud...
RAY WILLIAM JOHNSON

I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she...
MAE WHITMAN

When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high...
NANCY PELOSI

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CHRIS STAPLETON

It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that m...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so ...
PAUL WALKER

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for fi...
ANONYMOUS

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for fiv...
GEORGE BURNS

I didn't really start going to see a lot of musicals and live theater probably until I was in se...
THOMAS KAIL

My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried t...
DEBI MAZAR

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SALLY FIELD

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ZAYN MALIK

I did a little prayer while I was up there. I was just focused on the form and knew it was going to ...
JOEL QUICK

In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.
KATE MOSS

I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went thro...
BRITTANY SNOW

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REID HOFFMAN

My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so...
VICTORIA BECKHAM

I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dat...
KIESZA

It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of w...
CARLY PATTERSON

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AUSTIN STOWELL

I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I w...
MICHAEL HEIZER

I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and m...
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI

My plan was I just knew, I think the first time I was in a high school play, and I liked the feeling...
DAVID HEDISON

And she kissed me. It was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that wa...
GAYLE FORMAN

I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thi...
KASKADE

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made m...
KID ROCK

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give u...
JACKIE EVANCHO

I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they&...
ADAM BEACH

I grew up as a kind of nondenominational Christian. I have two uncles who are Baptist ministers. I w...
TROY POLAMALU

Some of the feedback I got was very violent. I had two girls come to my room. I had threats of viole...
LISA SMITH

I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students....
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN

I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missi...
VICTORIA AZARENKA

I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'...
DYLAN O'BRIEN

If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so l...
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS

In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it...
RASHIDA JONES

I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between peo...
HAMILTON JORDAN

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE

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MISTY COPELAND

I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - m...
MATTHEW WEINER

Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll...
LEE ATWATER

I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambr...
LUCY GRIFFITHS

When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan sai...
DAMIAN WOETZEL

I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I pla...
PARKER YOUNG

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the m...
BARACK OBAMA

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JENNIFER GARNER

A lot of times, at least when I was a student, I was kind of focused on my studies and on my career ...
ANNA BALLAN

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JUSTIN CHATWIN

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GARRETT CLAYTON

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AMY SEDARIS

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GRAHAM MOORE

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JACOB ARTIST

I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my scho...
IMTIAZ ALI

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PAUL THEROUX

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DAVID HYDE PIERCE

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DANICA MCKELLAR

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DIANE KRUGER

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

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JEFF DUNHAM

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ANGELA CARTWRIGHT

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lo...
ZOSIA MAMET

I have been changing my diet on my own. I haven't had any salt in the last month, and I cut out caff...
DANA QUIGLEY

I was voted by my high school senior class as most likely to recede.
FRANK WELKER

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JOE SEARS

When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went...
ZENDAYA

I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to sch...
LAKE BELL

I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in p...
ZACH BRAFF

I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we...
ADAM BEACH

my academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that...
MIL MILLINGTON

My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that fo...
EVAN DANDO

Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my car every day in my senior year. I went to ballet. I was a ballerina, so I was very focused on that. You kind of have to be. That was two-thirds of my week, going to ballet class.

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Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my car every day in my senior year. I went to ballet. I was a ballerina, so I was very focused on that. You kind of have to be. That was two-thirds of my week, going to ballet class.

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