I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striking hunting poses, stalking lunchrooms, classrooms, changing rooms, looking for boys who didn't fit in.
Marlon James
Related I grew up an only child, and I always felt as if I didn't fit in. In middle school, in grammar s... SHANICE WILLIAMS I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys ... AMY ADAMS I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then sud... MALORIE BLACKMAN When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, an... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI I hated high school. I didn't have any friends because I didn't fit in. CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, wh... RYAN COOGLER For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic sy... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black m... ISSA RAE I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me; like,... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do. TOM HOLLAND I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys. CHAZ BONO I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I di... RADHANATH SWAMI Growing up, I didn't get the talk of 'Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.... MEGHAN TRAINOR S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done wit... SIMON FULLER I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing ... KAREN FINERMAN I started racing BMX when I was five years old. I followed in my brother's footsteps, and I was ... CAROLINE BUCHANAN Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were... WAYLON JENNINGS At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for B... PAUL NURSE I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl.... LEA MICHELE I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother ... ROGER GOODELL Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a v... MARTA I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in ... ALEX O'LOUGHLIN I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, ... GEORGE J. MITCHELL For many years, I didn't feel I'd find anything that I'd like as much as 'Twin Peaks... SHERILYN FENN For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie m... MICHELLE DOCKERY I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson. DUSTIN DIAMOND I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 yea... STANLEY KUBRICK The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewa... LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated f... MARLO THOMAS Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could... KIEFER SUTHERLAND I'd never been on tour until I met the Rudimental boys. Never done a live show in front of an au... ELLA EYRE I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later. SAMMY HAGAR They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn&... DAVE VAN RONK I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years! SALLY KELLERMAN I didn't feel attractive in high school. ADAM LAMBERT American soldiers wore khaki uniforms during World War II. Men's khaki trousers became fashionab... ROGER STONE I didn't really enjoy school in general. JACOB BATALON I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four y... CLINT EASTWOOD I didn't win Class President in tenth grade. I was too chubby to win a role in the school play &... GRETCHEN CARLSON I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I... LAURA RAMSEY There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe. DAVID BECKHAM I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes ... KEVYN AUCOIN People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and y... FRAN DRESCHER I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books ... DARREN SHAN I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don't take themselves too seriously. ARIANA GRANDE As for middle school, I had a really horrible era of style. I'd only play basketball with the bo... GIGI HADID When I didn't go to church during my first two years in the NFL, I didn't know how it would ... ERIC WEDDLE The boys are like our brothers. We love our boys. (About Matt, Matthew and David) JENNIFER ANISTON I'd been wanting to work with James McAvoy since I was in drama school. I suppose there are para... EMUN ELLIOTT I just don't get boys; I don't really get men. CHERYL COLE I had a lot of boys in my life, But I'm looking for a man DEICY ZULEICA GONZALEZ My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality b... STEVE TISCH I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But... KRISTEN STEWART Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a differen... PARDIS SABETI I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground m... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scar... ANNA GODBERSEN I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years n... RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally chang... ZOE KAZAN I had a lot of boys in my life, But I'm looking for a man DEICY ZULEICA GONZALEZ I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in wes... OLESYA RULIN Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've b... DAISY RIDLEY Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Bet... SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hote... BRAD GILBERT Backstreet Boys fans don't want to hear the New Kids singing all of their hits. Just like our fa... DONNIE WAHLBERG I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't. GAIL PORTER In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club. ILANA GLAZER At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyon... JOYCE MEYER When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that... DAVID ANTIN (James) has been with me a few years now. And I take suggestions from Jessica about the boys team, t... TYRONE JOHNSON In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl ... DEVON AOKI It was great to go to Stanford. Until that point, I'd spent my whole life in southeast Michigan,... MARY BARRA I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how th... TOM HAYDEN I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an... ERIC MCCORMACK My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're i... MAVIS STAPLES I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to w... JOHN C. REILLY In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who... IAN ANDERSON Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, '... ALEX TURNER I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other peop... BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at t... MANDY PATINKIN I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to Ne... MANISH DAYAL I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for every... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing d... HARRY SHUM, JR. I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am ... EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I kn... AARON SCHOCK I'd spent 25 years in government when I left the Defense Department back in '93, decided I... DICK CHENEY I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I s... FREIDA PINTO I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interes... KATHERINE MOENNIG I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later ... BLAKE LIVELY I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to ... RICK YANCEY There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as eve... CHRISTOPHER LEE I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it. DANIEL S. LOEB I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for e... BILL GRIFFITH I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys. CHARLES DICKENS I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was... CHARLIE ROSE I was not a 'Doctor Who' fan. As a kid, I thought it was scary and for boys. CATHERINE TATE In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really. DAVID THEWLIS School didn't work for me. I hated it. GARY PAULSEN The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striki... JACK HUSTON In third grade, I played basketball with the boys every day at lunch. I had braces that were yellow ... GIGI HADID I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one h... STEVE HARVEY
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You can't... KEVIN JAMES I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary. I like to think if something scares me, then t... JAMES WAN We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government t... JAMES LANKFORD I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald. JAMES TAYLOR We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the ... WILLIAM JAMES Even a liberal city will have a prehistoric homophobe. After a show in Washington State, this guy ca... JAMES ADOMIAN Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or ... JAMES ALTUCHER The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contor... JAMES SUROWIECKI Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use ... JAMES MATTIS In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safet... JAMES SUROWIECKI Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do. BILL JAMES For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just vi... JAMES WAN As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and t... LEBRON JAMES My desire is to bring astronomical events and objects down into your personal, lived-in space. JAMES TURRELL Women pay attention to how men drive because it's a good indicator of what kind of character you... JAMES MARSDEN I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. BILL JAMES Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing princ... JAMES DYSON I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-bus... JAMES FRANCO Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it p... JAMES COOK I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling. JAMES SALTER The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy. JAMES DYSON The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, can... JAMES THURBER Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption... JAMES COMEY If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology,... JAMES SUROWIECKI The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is a... JAMES THURBER The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and th... JAMES BUCHAN We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consid... JAMES MATTIS You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtu... JAMES JONES None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the... BILL JAMES I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere ar... JAMES GRAY One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absen... HENRY JAMES To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of f... JAMES DICKEY For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you... LEBRON JAMES Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. WILLIAM JAMES If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he ... JAMES SUROWIECKI I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison. JAMES CRONIN Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficient... JAMES SUROWIECKI