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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I was very, very naughty in school.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you're a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to go back to the Bay Area, this is my thing, and I'm just going to open my own school of baseball. Find a facility, find a place and just teach kids. That's what I want to do.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
- Beautiful Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, film-making had been the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me. Then I get to L.A., and it's this whole other thing. I checked out.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I'm from, you focus on finishing school. Even finishing college is seen as a stretch - you just get a job after school, and that's it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did Christmas plays at school, but they banned me because I was messing about. And I was like, 'Ah, why?' Because I was getting attention, everyone was laughing at me and I was loving it, I thought, 'This feels good!'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is not a thing where I'm from. Finishing school is a big thing. Not a lot of people finish school.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to go to theater school.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always just like, 'Standups are making it up.' A lot of people have that myth about standup. And so it wasn't until I was in college for theater school in Boston that I realized I can actually start going to open mics and figuring this out.
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- Nov 07, 2020