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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have very young looks, so it's easy for me to play high school, but I'm trying to stay away from high-school movies. As I get older, I'll try and broaden my talents.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been doing all my school plays, elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then summer. I'd wanted to act for a long time, and I thought I was going to go to college and do theater, go that route. But 'Superbad' kind of fell on my lap. I was very, very lucky for that.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never got a chance to take advantage of 'Superbad' at school because I graduated before it came out, so I never got to use any of my fame to pick up girls and go to cool parties.
- Nov 07, 2020
I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left school on a wet Thursday afternoon, found a room in a shared house in North London, and started my first job on the following Monday as a courier for an advertising agency.
- Lines
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how to waltz because I used to teach ballroom dancing when I was in high school.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn't need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.
- Disconnected
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- Nov 07, 2020
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020