- Life
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain.
- Bucks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Aspen right after school and got a freelance gig writing articles for the 'Aspen Times.' I was their nightlife correspondent. They paid me fifty bucks an article.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over at the Olivia Pope & Associates set, we're like middle school children. Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around; there's show tunes and fart noises.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credit to my name. I knew one person in town - another actor whose name is John Billingsley. I just had to audition and audition and audition. I was plugging away for 15 years. So I earned my stripes!
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Dutch Harbor, Alaska - a place so tiny, we got only one channel on TV. The high school and middle school had 50 kids total!
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to college and did theatre. After that, I spent about three years in Seattle doing French theater and community theater and sorting it all out. Then I applied to graduate school and got accepted, so I started pursuing my master's in theatre at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly witnessed bullying as a teen in both a small and a big school setting. I feel like it is a universal topic.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go to public school, which is nice because that's where I can go to be Darci, and when I perform, I'm Darci Lynne. It's my balance.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020