- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.
- Lion
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about ten years old, I was brought to London to watch a production of 'The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.' I think it was at Sadler's Wells in maybe 2000. I watched it because my school was putting on a production of it, and it was the first school play that I was able to audition for a speaking part.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did school plays, and then, at the age of 18, I applied to drama school in London, and I got in. I've been very lucky that no one so far has stopped me from being able to live my dream - the industry or my parents.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and that was amazing. I absolutely loved my three years at Guildhall.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 'Into The Woods.' I auditioned for a couple of productions since being in it at school but haven't been successful.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, whose interest in chemistry was rather minimal, nevertheless went to graduate school in the subject and married my father, for whom it was as important as life itself.
- Diversion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.
- Nov 07, 2020
School is a foretaste of life.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.
- Administrators
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- Nov 07, 2020