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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
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started recording in my sophomore year in high school. I recorded things on my cell phone in my basement.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I now have plans to create a school for singers in Vienna, and I would love to found one in the Middle East, too, if possible.
- Nov 07, 2020
I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women didn't go to school when they were young because parents preferred to send their brothers. The women couldn't access loans in their own right because the banks sought the approval of a male dependent.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of primary school, I went to secondary school. I paid $12 a term to go to school.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd done plays in middle school, done some for the church in high school, but I had no intention of ever being a professional actor.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't finish high school - left home when I was 15. I moved away to Fresno and worked as a grocery clerk. I went to college part-time at California State Fresno, and then ended up finishing in two and a half years because I wanted to get on with things.
- Five
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming up in the School of Aaron Sorkin Delivery of Fast-Paced Dialogue and Hyper-Articulateness prepared me well for Shondaland, where there are many of the same factors at play.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in middle school and high school, I was over 100 pounds overweight.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020