A Quote by Alicia Keys
I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.
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Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.
I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.
In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.
I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over.
You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?
I think in high school there's so many cliques. You're never safe.
I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.
I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.
There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.
I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out.
High school is all about hierarchies, labels, cliques - we are labeled and structured. Everyone goes through it, more or less.
Everybody's gone through high school; everybody understands that dynamic. Some people have a great time, and some people don't have a great time. My high school experience was not the greatest. I wasn't necessarily bullied, but I was one of those guys that just goes along, and I didn't really feel connected to many of the social cliques.
Well let me tell you what [High School Musical] is really about. High School Musical is about this group of boys who are all being molested by the basketball coach, who is Zac Efron's dad. It's about them struggling to cope with this molestation. And they have these little girlfriends, who are their beards. Oh, and somehow there's music involved. You have to get stoned to watch it.
I went straight from high school to 'Gossip Girl,' and both were very structured, scheduled environments, so I never had freedom to explore and carve my own path.
I grew up always around music through my father - I would play in music studios with him as I was growing up - and my high school, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts.
The only pressure comes form myself. I put pressure on myself at first just because I was intimidated. When I made Amy Poehler laugh, it was a big thing for me. She's been one of my role models since high school, because she started UCB, which is what I wanted to do since high school.
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