- Cool
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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
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was always academic first, and I always put school work before football - although I did put a lot into football!
- Enrichment
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.
- Couple Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, driving tank trucks for Johnny Geer for a couple years and learning about oil and gas production. I had a whole cadre of mentors.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first boyfriend was a fashion designer. He was a junior in high school, I was a freshman.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.
- Ham
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020