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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was ten, I caught glandular fever and had to have a year off school. My parents arranged for a tutor to keep me on track with my studies.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.
- Cheeky
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always quite outspoken as a teenager and quite cheeky in school and stuff.
- Family Ties
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball was popular in the summer, but hockey was big most of the time. With five brothers, you never escaped it. We had an indoor rink in our town, and all the boys would play on it right through high school.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is an elementary school gym teacher and a track and cross-country coach, so she really wanted me to be a runner. But I was not a runner. I was horrible at running.
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- Nov 07, 2020