- Never
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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
- Good Breeding
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- Nov 07, 2020
While Labour Party orators readily remember the 1980s for Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's free-booting variety of entrepreneurial meritocracy, what gets forgotten is that Thatcher also gave the heave-ho to the old establishment's notion of merit - good breeding, a posh school, and so on.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of rode this weird line between athlete and artist. It was a little different because most of the athletes were total jocks, and most of the artists dressed in black and were kind of considered a little on the fringe. But I hung out with both crowds in my high school.
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pittsburgh was the first chance to be in a classroom with other writers, to have conversations with other writers. In fact, after graduate school, I lived in Japan, Ohio and New Orleans, and only upon leaving Pittsburgh did I see what a special community it was for poets, so I was eager to come back. It's a strong arts community across the board.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never got to go to prom. I never went to regular school. I ate lunch by myself.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in prison, rap was all I had at that point because I was kicked out of school, all that education just gone and I couldn't come out of prison to play football - that was all over with.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We would do concerts at school, and I would play cover tunes and thought, 'This is really great.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
- Graduation
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- Nov 07, 2020
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020