- Good
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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
Politics is terrifying, very masculine, and not particularly encouraging to young blonde women - as a career, that is - and it was only when I was working in parliament that I thought to myself, 'Well, this is a tough industry; can an acting career be any more intimidating?' and I applied to drama school.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I didn't realize that science or engineering were male-dominated fields. When I got to college, and I was one of two girls in a 50-person class, that's when I realized that this was a unique decision I had made as a girl to go into engineering.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, we moved around a lot, actually. In second grade, I think I went to three different schools. We were in Nevada and Oregon and as well as a few different places in Nebraska. I did go to high school in the same town.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably didn't talk in public until eighth grade, and then in high school, I started doing oral interpretation - kind of like monologues. Through theater and plays, I started coming out of my shell.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The childhood games ended for me when I was 14 and I finished school. I had to find a job, not an easy thing in those days.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
After high school, I had $2,000 saved, and I packed everything I could into my '95 Nissan Sentra with no air-conditioning, and I drove out to L.A.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn't. I wish I could've just let it slide and not cared about it.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020