- Juice
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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
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we normally peak in high school. I first qualified for the Olympics team during my sophomore year in high school, when I was 15 years old.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started doing drama after school, and it just developed into something that I did and I enjoyed very much.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up always around music through my father - I would play in music studios with him as I was growing up - and my high school, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was spectacularly average at school, while my two brothers did really well academically. But my dad never said I didn't try hard enough. He knew I did my best.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We moved from the suburbs to L.A. and I picked up break dancing when I was 10. I joined a dance crew in high school and I was battling. I also took ballet most of my life until high school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
- Lived
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, everyone smoked cigarettes. I was the rebel who didn't want to. I have never needed anything like that to have a good time, and that also means my experiences are always very real.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't wait to get out of school in junior high to get with Willie Green to pick up some of the riffs he knew.
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- Nov 07, 2020