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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans defined themselves by their Constitution. That is what creates us. This is our heritage, and you must know our heritage.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived in St. Petersburg about two months after Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated for her reports on Chechnya. I lived with an elderly woman and her grown children in an apartment that was not too far from the neighborhood military cadet school.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a really small school, and it had a really small theater department. They didn't talk about Broadway. I learned about it through watching the Tony Awards.
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- Nov 07, 2020