- 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 School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a Catholic high school, and I was super rebellious. I would dress weird or play jazz. I was definitely pushing against whatever was going on.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world that places a growing premium on social skills, education systems need to do much better at fostering those skills systematically across the school curriculum.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually balance school by doing online classes and regular classes - that has helped me a lot, and I'm able to get my schoolwork done while I'm traveling too.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got kicked out of school... I caused a lot of turbulence throughout those years.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was one of those kids who kept trying on different skins in high school. I was very afraid to be myself around all of these kids, to really reveal any part of myself that was true, so I would try on different skins, try on different masks, hoping I'd hit on one that was cool or quirky or interesting enough that suddenly I would be OK.
- Elitism
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been athletic - did the 100 metres and 1500 m at school, cross-country races - and did well in them.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a giant fan of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' in high school, and I was obsessed with Jim Carrey and cut out any picture of Jim Carrey that ever came in any kind of magazine. I put it all over my walls. At the time, I thought humor was just repeating lines from 'Ace Ventura' ad nauseum in the back of my advanced math class.
- Filmmaking Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to college at University of South Carolina and dropped out of chemistry, and to fill a class, the only spot they had left was a theater class. It was so annoying, but I took it and then I thought it was the greatest thing; the most socially creative. I dropped out of school immediately and moved to New York to start acting. I was 19.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020