- Music
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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
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican. Even now in California, I get talked to on the street in Spanish constantly!
- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children drop out of school because they're hungry. By providing a meal at school we have seen an increase in attendance.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about a sitcom is that you're in front of a live audience, so you really get in touch with what audience reaction is, but also there are lots of elements of film that you're dealing with, and there's kind of a great boot camp or graduate school mentality to it, because you're going to suck.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of a tomboy. I was the girl in middle school with the floods on - I wasn't fashionable at all.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did some acting in high school and then a little more in college, and it just was the thing that I felt that I wanted to do more than anything else. And then I was fortunate enough to audition for and get into Yale Drama School right after college, and I spent three years there.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid I really loved Humphrey Bogart. But when I was in theater school, Robert DeNiro was my go-to guy.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once school let out every year, my siblings and I would get packed into a station wagon to drive to South Carolina to see my grandparents for summer vacation. If school let out on Friday, we were probably in the station wagon no later than Sunday morning, and we would make stops along the way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.
- Freshman Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named Miki Vukovich. Miki and I were the only skaters in our high school. He runs my foundation now.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1965, I was 11 and in my last year at Junior school. I was living with my mum and older sister in a rented flat in south London - my parents had separated when I was five and got divorced a couple of years later, which was unusual at the time. My dad was working abroad, and I hadn't seen him for several years.
- British Museum
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- Nov 07, 2020