- Said
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have three younger siblings, so the four of us were outside all the time after school playing games, making up games. My sister made up a game called 'roof ball.' We'd play that constantly. She always beat me in it, and it made me very mad. But we were outside all the time.
- Harold
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is actually getting much harder for someone from an ordinary background to break through the ranks. In the period from 1964 to 1997, every single Prime Minister - from Harold Wilson to John Major - was the product of a state school.
- Grammar School
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Margaret Thatchers of this country made it through - like I did - because of the grammar school system, which gave the opportunity of a lifetime to working-class kids. It put them on a level playing field with the privately educated kids, and opened up the top universities to them.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not arguing for a return to the grammar school system, but there must be a way of identifying bright kids from ordinary backgrounds and giving them a world-class education.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am one of seven kids, number five of seven, and the first of my siblings to graduate from high school and the first to graduate from college.
- Oxford
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trained at the Oxford School of Drama.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt like an outsider, whether in school or when I'm working or within the industry or just in society at large.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My school was pretty tough, and I played football there so I would be accepted, to save myself a kicking.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really felt I belonged; there was always a sense of apartness. At school, I was the cricketer.
- Bear
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- Nov 07, 2020
In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020