- High School
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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
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called 'Grownups,' which went out on the BBC, and overnight this new career opened up.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being very dyslexic I couldn't even tie my own shoe laces until the age of 21 and I struggled at school.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020