- Erudition
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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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966 to become the founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
At drama school we were encouraged to keep fit and healthy, but not to bulk out. We were told to stay lithe to allow our bodies to morph when we're playing various parts. Running is ideal for this, especially when I needed a lean look for the Channel 4 drama 'Cucumber.'
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played wide receiver in high school; then I went to college at Ball State and played safety.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me.
- Nov 07, 2020
Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal is not to just do 'Video Game High School' every year. We want to grow into a real content production company. We want to be Pixar or HBO. We want to make five series a year or 10 series a year.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.
- Good Grades
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was interested in wildlife conservation, and I chose Georgia because they supposedly had a good forestry school. I figured it might be easier to get good grades there, too, because a lot of Southern kids would come up to school in New Jersey, and they'd always be a little behind, so I figured maybe I wouldn't have to work so hard.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020