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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
- Embarked
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 19 I left school and embarked on a 9-day bike ride with friends from London to Monte Carlo.
- Pizza
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would come home from school every Wednesday, order pizza, and watch 'X-Files.' I was devoted.
- Clarke
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working with Mrs. Clarke at The Gryphon School is when I really began to think of acting as a potential career.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.
- Nov 07, 2020
I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.
- Distributed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through college, when stories become the things distributed in Xeroxes missing entire pages of line-endings.
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the advantages of not going to art school is that you're not taught what you can't do.
- Continental
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the material, but it did used to get a laugh.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely want to have a career in the TV/film industry, as I love acting, but if it all goes to pot, I want to set up a performing arts school for children with special needs.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020