- High School
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
School didn't work for me. I hated it.
- Gang
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
- Good Parts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
- Disenfranchised
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
- High School Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a senior in high school, I had a strong sense that God wanted me in some kind of ministry.
- Nervous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to school is not really education. It's really who's in front of the classrooms and who's endearing themselves to the kids and who's making the kids want to learn and who's inspiring them to be curious about any topic in the world.
- Hated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hated school, didn't like the discipline.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
- Nov 07, 2020
In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020