- Me
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never hung around with any models. I've always hung around with my friends from school and kept myself to myself.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything.
- English School
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until I went to my first comic convention while I was in high school that I got to see actual comic book artists and original artwork in real life, up close. That was when I first realized that this is what I wanted to do for a living.
- Nov 07, 2020
I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my first night at boarding school, I felt entirely alone. I was shocked, frightened and intensely homesick, but I soon discovered that expressing these emotions, instead of bringing help and consolation, attracted a gloating, predatory fascination.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to do school properly and all the stuff that you should do when you're young and teenage: first friends, first girlfriends. It wasn't like I needed to be doing acting.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020