Maureen Johnson Quotes

I didn't know about competition until I got to school. I didn't know how degrading it was to be graded until I got to school.

Making movies is just as much of a game. They say Hollywood is like high school with money.

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

The longer I live, the more I'm convinced the world is just one big high school, with the cool kids always targeting the uncool.

Money doesn't motivate, but stats do.

TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.

Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won.

Stats are for losers. I like winning games.

Ready to be humiliated, Wanda?" Wes taunted. "You may have taken the planet, but you're losing this game.

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.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

That competition grew through high school and you step outside more and it grew through college. Then you had regional style speak volumes through college. As you get older, and begin to travel and see more, that was the progression of style for me.

I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games.

When I was growing up, I didn't really know much about being popular or cliques or anything like that. In elementary school and middle school, you start to kind of realize what it's all about. There are cool kids, and then there's you, and you're just trying to figure out where you fit in.I learned a lot about acceptance and rejection,Those are the themes that you'll find spread throughout my music and weaved in throughout all of the lyrics. I really know what it's like to be accepted, and I also know what it's like to be rejected. And those are lessons I learned in Wyomissing.

What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains?

The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

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

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

Hollywood is high school with money.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.

There was no one really like John Bender at my high school.

Its a game, and that’s how I am going to treat it.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?