- Pressure
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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
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had done student films for the School Of Visual Arts and for NYU and all these schools in New York, so those were my first film experiences, but they were student films, so I guess they don't really count.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a show back when I was in high school - so I was about 17 - and it was the first time I was on stage. I never even thought about being an actor before that, but after that experience, I knew it was what I wanted to do.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school in the Bronx. I learned to constantly try to cover up the fact that I was gay. That facade of being somebody I'm really not just to protect myself definitely helped with acting.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my grandfather began to be successful, he returned to the village where he was born and founded a primary school.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stay in school and band, kids! It had its nerdy moments, and I always felt like I wanted to do something more with it.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd applied to graduate school for playwriting, and I got rejected by every school. I felt that theatre was closed but that, when it came to film, the door was very slightly ajar. If I have any virtues, it's that I'm good at walking through doors that are slightly ajar.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020