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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
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts, I moved to New York City and worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think everyone is equally haunted by high school, but I also don't think it's unusual to be.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Good Wife' has actually been something, ironically, that I've watched since episode one, season one in the U.K. because it came up when I was in drama school. I always watched it. It was kind of like an actor's show.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was like a hermit; I didn't really have a lot of homies I would kick it with. I was in high school, I was failing all my classes, and I wanted to make music.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just always wanted to play guitar. I though that was, like, really dope. And then in high school, I learned how to play trumpet and, like, French horn because if the instrument's right in front of me, I'm going to just teach myself.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents love what I'm doing. Like, at first, they were so skeptical, dude. Like, I would be ditching school and, like, do music. And I'd be telling my parents I'd be in class.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with Chief Keef and Lil Reese. We all lived in the same environment, I went to school with them and everything.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.
- Film And Television
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a poor kid. I grew up watching film and television but primarily television. And I graduated high school, and I knew I wanted to go to college because nobody in my family had. So I was like, 'I'll go and be a theater major.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved math in high school and I thought that I would be an accountant. But I also thought I would be better at counting money in the NFL.
- Nov 07, 2020
I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020