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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a civil engineer. No joke. I would come home from school and build bridges out of toothpicks and see how much weight they would hold before falling.
- Old School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm into the old school. I listen to rock, soft rock, jazz, old school R&B.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people have to learn the words to the National Anthem before they sing it. I learned these words when I was a child in elementary school, so this is something that's been embedded in me ever since I was an adult.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture. But then I really got smitten by architecture.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.
- Eased
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The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
- Business
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I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.
- Enjoyed
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I actually did Shakespeare when I was at North Carolina School of the Arts. I studied with Gerald Freedman and Mary Irwin - it was fun; I enjoyed it.
- Brain
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.
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- Nov 07, 2020