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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a private girls' school where I was one out of five girls in the class who looked like me.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school was by far the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
- Grad School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
- Canterbury
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Carnegie Mellon for a year and a month or two, and then I dropped out because I got a movie. I didn't anticipate ever leaving school - I was a really serious drama student - and then that happened, and my life sort of took a turn.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020