- Flying
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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
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it because I was in marching band, and we were promised food if we played, and they broke their promise. It was my first and only heist, motivated by justice and hunger.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one - that's how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that 'text,' tinker with traits - play God, some would say.
- Lived
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to uni and then drama school afterwards and lived in quite a few student houses.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school, and that's very clear.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked for seven years doing computer graphics to pay my way through graduate school - I have no romance with computer work. There's no amount of phony graphics and things making sound effects on the screen that can change that.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film school didn't prepare me for the fact that you have to manage so many different personalities at every stage, and I learned nothing about what to do when a movie was finished.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.'
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasn't getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stuff like that happen. We would hang out in Frank Zappa's studio, and we released a single in 1982 on his label. I was 12, and that was the first recording experience I had. To top it off, Eddie Van Halen produced it.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020