Roland Orzabal Quotes

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.

I was always a very good student.

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.

In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

I am never worried that I'm not gonna get my work done. I was the kid who got straight As and was a little too intense in school. Like, I am a perfectionist, and I am going to sit at the front of the class with my hand raised.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at school. GCSEs were just a breeze for me.

For exams, I swotted so hard because I couldn't bear the thought of not coming first.

I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.

I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.

I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math courses - I embrace my inner nerd.

I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.

I made good grades in school.

You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.