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I was the weirdest kid: I wanted to see the police file - in grade school! I was convinced I could crack the case if I just had that file.
Alafair Burke
School
Police
Kid
See
Case
Could
Had
Weirdest
Crack
Grade
Grade School
Just
Wanted
Convinced
File
I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.
Alan Alda
Life
Myself
Daily
My Life
Think
Everyday
Ways
Some
About
Compulsion
Rituals
Condemned
Grade
Tasks
Fever
Improving
Low
Many
Including
Inner
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
Alan Kay
Time
Me
Age
Three
Lying
Fluently
Books
Misfortune
Had
Knew
Learn
Read
How
Were
Hit
Grade
Maybe
Teachers
Fortune
Starting
By The Time
I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.
Alan Ritchson
Life
Passion
Big
Collecting
Grade
Childhood
Baseball
Baseball Player
Thing
Player
Cards
Third
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.
Alan Ritchson
Life
Book
Passion
Big
Collecting
Comic
Comic Book
Up
Grade
Childhood
Fanatic
Really
Grow
Grow Up
Baseball
Baseball Player
Thing
Player
Cards
Third
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.
Alan Shepard
Sports
School
Our
Ran
Those
Out
Days
Course
Around
Yard
Were
Grade
Grade School
Just
Organized
Recess
I was in public school until third or fourth grade, and after that, I was homeschooled. I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education.
Aldis Hodge
Education
Mom
School
College
About
Attending
Until
Began
Grade
After
Public
Then
Public School
Fourth
Playing
Third
I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call home and ask if everything was fine at home because I would never smile. Then I got into this phase, from maybe fourth to eighth grade, where my personality just did a 180.
Alessia Cara
Smile
Home
Personality
Speak
Remember
Everything
Those
Kids
Would
Fine
Never
Weird
Call
Because
Got
Did
Grade
Maybe
Just
Where
Eighth
Eighth Grade
Ask
Then
Really
Teachers
Who
Phase
Fourth
Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
Alex Berenson
Will
Borrowing
Costs
Ratings
Higher
Investment
Most
Although
Debt
Survive
Grade
Lowered
Companies
Even
Below
I constantly peed in my pants up until the 8th grade and wore an extra-large sailor uniform from kindergarten to 8th grade because my mom was scared I'd grow out of it. So I learned to make fun of myself at school and summer camp.
Ali Wong
Myself
Mom
School
Summer
Summer Camp
Pants
Out
Kindergarten
Constantly
Scared
Until
Make
Learned
Because
Sailor
Camp
Up
Grade
Wore
Uniform
Fun
Grow
It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'
Alison McGhee
Girl
Cute
Think
Would
Only
Look
Am
Very
Grade
Short
Just
Eighth
Eighth Grade
Little
Height
Cool
Now
I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.
Amanda Plummer
People
World
Strong
School
Try
Girl
First
Met
Become
About
Propensity
Poetry
Had
Disappear
Invisible
Wrote
She
Still
Very
Grade
Grade School
Woods
Loved
Which
Little
Little Girl
Novel
Lived
Imaginary
Imaginary World
Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.
Amity Shlaes
Science
Problem
Matter
Parents
Live
Humanities
Earn
Those
More
Students
Emphasis
Schools
Math
Than
Grade
Grades
Graduate
Graduates
Next
Who
Professional
Round
Applications
I never was a great sports player. In fact, in fourth grade, I had the second to the worst softball throw.
Amy Klobuchar
Great
Sports
Softball
Worst
Fact
Throw
Never
Had
Grade
In Fact
Player
Second
Fourth
I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.
Amy Sherald
Me
Black
Kindergarten
Feel
Like
Schools
Grade
Just
Wanted
Twelfth
Amy
My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.'
Andrew Dost
Music
Time
Beatles
Mind
Thought
First
Before
Proper
More
Had
Bought
Red
Like
Blew
First Time
Heard
Tape
Than
Grade
Which
Mean
Fifth
Really
Dad
Ever
Album
Compilation
I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.
Andrew Luck
Game
College
First
Back
Football
Until
Up
American
Grade
Moved
Stopped
Middle
Grew
American Football
Soccer
Organized
Europe
Switched
Played
Playing
I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at the end of class every Friday to present whatever I wanted. A lot of the time, I did an Andy Rooney impression. I would sit at her desk, empty it, and just comment on what was in there.
Andy Daly
Teacher
Time
Me
Class
Sit
Whatever
Clown
Energy
Every
Gave
Way
Would
Andy
Class Clown
Minutes
Small
Had
Contain
Empty
Friday
Lot
Impression
End
Comment
Very
Trying
Did
Grade
Just
Wanted
Fifth
Who
Her
Present
Desk
Initially, I wanted to write middle grade. YA scared me: there's a lot of responsibility in being a YA author. It's so important to give that age range the right books that reflect their world and show them themselves.
Angie Thomas
Me
Age
World
Responsibility
Important
Reflect
Books
Range
Scared
Give
Write
Ya
Lot
Author
Grade
Middle
Being
Wanted
Them
Themselves
Show
Initially
Right
My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.
Ann Bancroft
Me
Year
Older
Waterfall
Our
Seventh
Backyard
Brother
He
How
Climber
Off
Grade
Taught
Frozen
Bill
Who
After about fourth grade, I do remember borrowing my mother's old portable Olivetti and typing stories out on the back of photocopies of journal articles.
Ann Leckie
Remember
Mother
Old
Back
Typing
Out
About
Borrowing
Journal
Articles
Grade
Stories
After
Portable
Fourth
I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school.
Ann Powers
Music
Writing
School
Criticism
Later
Mine
High
High School
Poem
Bug
Got
Came
Grade
Little
Newspaper
Published
Fourth
I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.
Anna Camp
Good
Parents
Laugh
Telling
Hoping
Since
Also
Make
Making
Been
Grade
Bread
Stories
Really
Acting
Thing
Pudding
Second
Here
In fifth grade, I did 'Oklahoma!,' but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, 'The sixth-grader has to get the lead.' I was really discouraged.
Ansel Elgort
Discouraged
Oklahoma
Could
Lead
Knew
Leading
Leading Role
Like
Sing
Were
Role
Get
Did
Grade
Fifth
Really
Whole
Play
This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.
Ansel Elgort
Love
Music
Song
Party
Lose
Control
Favorite
Would
Would-Be
Record
Totally
She
Sort
Makes
Expected
Grade
Different
Produce
In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.
Anthony Jeselnik
Time
Class
Brilliant
Trouble
Joke
Down
Say
Would
Bored
Some
Had
Head
Almost
Like
Get
Grade
Just
Pop
Novel
Second
Interrupt
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