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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
People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids my age never left California. And here I was, going to school with Aboriginal kids in a dream-like location.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Vancouver, then went to high school and college in Seattle. Then I moved to Los Angeles after college.
- Arranging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.
- Australia
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't singing country music for a living, I was actually going to school to be a doctor.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this recurring nightmare where I'm giving a speech in front of my old high school classmates, and they start laughing at me, and I look down and realize I'm naked. And a shark.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020