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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I ever wanted to do was play football. I was never one for revising, and I only left school with three O Levels.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've - to be honest with you, I've never had an acting lesson. But I've been at drama school for 50 years.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Juilliard was four years, and I called it 'med school with guaranteed unemployment at the end.' And it ends: you're getting ready to go out and be an actor, and... nothing.
- Loner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a bit of a loner at school because I was into what I was into, that sort of scene; that is where the whole mod thing started, when I was 14-15.
- Computational
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
No sense making plans to get a job or finish school at Johns Hopkins, which I just wasn't getting anything out of. Life was waiting to go back on 'Jeopardy!'
- Garry
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course on modern American history and use Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury as a primary text.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to make sure we have in every school teachers trained and qualified to make sure every child, including children with different learning styles, succeed.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always noticed that in art school, that grief was considered more profound than happiness. But why?
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020