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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
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was still a student, I came out of a performing arts high school, and the female students who were doing traditional dance and ballet were so beautiful. They were beautiful, starting from their postures.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was this hip-hop collective called People Crew. And at the time in Korea, there was no real place to access rap music. So People Crew used to host this summer school program, which taught rapping and dancing. I begged my mom to attend that school to learn how to rap.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure if they do this in the States, but in Korea, until high school, on your graduation diploma there's a line that states your future goal. Kids write 'president' or 'astronaut,' or whatever. I always wrote 'singer.'
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Ms. Marvel' mantle has passed to 'Kamala Khan,' a high school student from Jersey City who struggles to reconcile being an American teenager with the conservative customs of her Pakistani Muslim family.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was an open mic night when I was about 11 years old and I went and I played the songs that I'd written in my bedroom and it was the first night where I felt like I was myself at school.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.
- Choir
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in a choir at school and we were part of the BBC Proms back in around 2002.
- Meetings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew my priority was acting, and school came second. If I had an audition and meetings, I did the school work later.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been going to school up to the third term of year 11 at MLC, and there was no point in dropping out. Having gone through Year 12, there's so much that helps you acquire the knowledge you need. It helps you in life.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020