On A High Quotes

I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.

Being a professional does not have a very high standard.

Musical integrity means a lot to me, personally for myself, I don't really care if other people can't even sing or whatever. For myself I have high standards.

In high school, I always dressed to impress the girls.

I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college. I worked in advertising before I moved to L.A. to pursue acting.

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

[Please let my daughter] not have to wear high heels.

I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting.

I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

I pretty much only wear high heels.

I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.

You go through high school and college the same way: never listening to your coaches because you're the best. But when you get to the pros, all that stops because everybody there has talent.

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you.

I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

Playing halfback in high school and college was marvelous! It taught me how to get to the end zone. I wanted to make my nickname "End Zone Tommy!"

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.

Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.

I have always loved rock music. But I have played country music since my senior year in high school. That's where my heart is. I try to keep up with the rock world as much as I can.

My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.

When you want your body to perform at a high level, it's important to make sure you are giving your body quality nutrients.

When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

I went from living with my parents, to being signed out of high school. I have never, not had a boss, or someone else responsible for me. It is really cool as an artist to have that freedom.

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

The only thing that kept me out of college was high school.

We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing plants and green jobs.

I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like.

Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

The guys in high school were like, "You've got a nice voice; you should keep singing," but I never honestly thought that one day I'd be a singer. When you're young, you don't see the signs.

When I look back at high school, or college, or when I was getting married, it's the girlfriends I had then that give substance and joy to that point in my life.

I've been doing that song ["Live Wire"] on my own for years, so no, I'm not worried about [high notes] at all.

I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".

I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.

You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.