- Journalism
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're in high school, and you're telling your friends that you're skipping lunch to go write poetry, and they were all questioning my sexuality.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing about high school football in the state of Texas is the whole town shuts down, and there's shoe polish all over businesses and stores. Everyone rallies around you.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.
- Grasped
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- Nov 07, 2020
In school, I never really grasped drawing the nude form.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In retrospect, I think I had some kind of learning disorder. I could kind of charm my way through grade school, but in high school... I could never seem to grasp things.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020