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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not like my body has changed since I've played in high school, beyond being more mature. It's not like my power has changed, either.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids to learn how to build the things that they think of.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go to film school. My Grampa always says just watch a lot of movies. He didn't go to film school; he went to theatre school. It's interesting to learn about the technical side of it, but I think it's more important to learn about writing and working with actors.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really learned a lot when I worked on my grandpa's film 'Twixt' and got to be with him start to finish and sit next to him every day. That was my film school.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots.
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- Nov 07, 2020