- Being Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
School Quotes
On learning, growing up and finding your own pace.
These quotes cover school in different forms: a childhood spent in Sunday school, being a late bloomer among faster-moving classmates, and skipping formal film training entirely to learn a craft directly. For lighter school-themed content, see our Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the ways I learned how to act, really, is by having secrets and having to function as a kid in a public school in suburban Bible Belt Texas.
- Healthy Diet
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- Nov 07, 2020
A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in New Hampshire, moved to Tennessee when I was 9, and lived there through high school, then went to school at College of Charleston, so definitely a lot of pieces of the South there.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not exactly a maths genius - I'm really good at maths, maths was my favorite subject in school, but I wasn't a genius.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably half of my friends were Jewish, they were all secular Jews. We went to Hebrew school, we knew we were Jewish, but it wasn't a major part of our existence.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do a very good impersonation of an American - I went to high school here - but I've spent most of my life in Russia.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to drama school and, after that, went to Paris to train at a place called Ecole Philippe Gaulier. When I came home, I realised I'd have to have a serious stab at it. I didn't have an agent and didn't have the traditional drama school showcase, so I started a comedy group with a couple of friends.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
At University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, I was one of the first Blacks there. I didn't go to a Black school until my junior year of college, when I went to Fisk University.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a small town and never went to a Black school.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020