- Back To School
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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
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won a competition in primary school for my painting of Nottingham's Goose Fair; it was a riot of colour with glitter and sequins.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready for, like Faulkner's, and then they are afraid of putting their toes in the water again.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked that fire for me, and so that's still going, and I haven't given up on it.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're 20 and you're in acting school and your teachers tell you that 95 percent of actors are unemployed for twenty years, you think it doesn't apply to you. But it does take twenty years to become real, because that's what you have to do to be an interesting actor.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the big factors in me going to an independent school was the bullying at junior school. But it wasn't an easy choice for my parents. And now, I do have issues with independent schools.
- Enthused
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is so stimulating for young children to hear someone who does science talking about it. It can be so exciting and inspiring. It is easy to get younger school children enthused about science.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can somehow get access to what is perceived to be a better school by either being religious or appearing to be religious. That is unfair.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in school, I really thought about soul a lot. I was listening a lot to Bjork and to the Commodores. I really wanted to know how they felt. And especially with Bjork, the music there told me wow, that's really her soul there.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I constantly peed in my pants up until the 8th grade and wore an extra-large sailor uniform from kindergarten to 8th grade because my mom was scared I'd grow out of it. So I learned to make fun of myself at school and summer camp.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020