- Graduate Degree
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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
- Graduate Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started drama in high school.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did. Then when I was around 15, I did my first movie.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
- Grad School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, 'I'm breaking in, OK? I'm breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I'm going to take a room.'
- Quiet
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- Nov 07, 2020
In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020