- 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
- Attendance
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- Nov 07, 2020
My attendance in school was 30 per cent. I was always travelling with my parents.
- Art History
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I finished school I wanted to do a bunch of courses - art history in Florence, fashion in London and acting in Los Angeles. So I started with acting, and soon I knew this is it, this is what I need to do.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every high school, there is a clique.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest.
- Grad
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was finishing grad school, the hot new PC was the IBM 286. Bulky. Immobile. Expensive. I touched-typed easily and quickly, but nevertheless, I realized that the machine was a chain.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young person, when I was in high school, we did a very emotional and wonderful - for us, life-changing - production of 'Godspell.' It really, really was the highlight of my high school time, and it was for everybody else in the cast, too.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.
- Charter Schools
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in the mornings once the kids have gone to school, taking my laptop and a coffee to a little writer's room in town where I plant noise-cancelling headphones on my head and get to work.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020