- Feet
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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
- Age Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots.
- Principal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
- Doll
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a theatre doll, and I've always - since I'm out of school - have always been on stage.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did high school wrestling. I was first in the state of Florida and ninth in the nation in folkstyle. Freestyle and folkstyle wrestling I did for years.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Funnily enough, when I was leaving school and they asked you what you were going to do, and I just liked acting, that's never what I would say. I would always say I would go into business, even though I didn't really know what was meant by that.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real?
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left school, I went and bought my own sound system, and me and my dad would just go along to all the pubs and clubs around the local area and just sort of do our own little cover shows.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.
- Chemistry
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- Nov 07, 2020
High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also played two years of high school football but I wasn't very, how shall I say it, talented.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020