- Dance
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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
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone back and paid more attention.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.
- Get A Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and I was going to go get a real job. I never thought of acting and never really wanted to be an actor.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
What SAT tutoring does is it invisibly alters the admissions pool so a school could try to be as egalitarian as they can, but if a student is SAT-tutored, and their score goes up 200 points in a year, and the college admissions committee has no idea that the student got tutored, all of a sudden it's shifting the pool back toward old money.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I wasn't going to write a record as soon as I got signed, because I hadn't had any life experiences. I was still at school, and I wasn't going to write about that.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have been reliant on a man for her livelihood. Instead, she went to boarding school, wrote a thesis on Balzac, and became a teacher.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
- Nov 07, 2020
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020