- High School
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only wanted instrumentalists; they didn't want any singers. But I made my way in, and I remember the conductor of the band wrote a lot of arrangements and asked me what I wanted to sing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in. When I worked with Clark Terry, that was the beginning of school for me, and Harry Belafonte and Sergio Mendes, they were all my universities.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked while in high school and college so that I could pay for school. I also had loans.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.
- Catholic School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a Catholic school, and I just rebelled.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me feel shaky.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked school except for having to get up early and, of course, high school drama!
- Flames
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 'American Idol,' I got a lot of 'stuck up' rumors that just fueled the never-ending flames of high school drama. Thankfully, my real friends always stood up for me and knew I wasn't like that.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being 1 of 6 made me a weirdo in school. We were like the von Trapps, and our house was like the 'Hunger Games.' Anytime my mom would get a good, sugary cereal, I'd hide a bag from my three older brothers, who'd eat everything.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like everyone in high school, like everyone in life, we all have this outer layer we put up to protect ourselves.
- Nov 07, 2020
I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020