- 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
- Neighbor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.
- Explains
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never send my kids to a single-sex school.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.
- Business School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well... I graduated from the business school of Northumberland University in Newcastle.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn't smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was pretty foul. Just nasty. But that smell reminds me so much of my childhood because every morning when I was going to school, I would smell that.
- Dressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one school I visited, everyone had read 'Halo,' and they were all dressed up as angels - with halos!
- Nov 07, 2020
My school is very good and quite understanding and know I have to take time off for interviews or writers' festivals.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a deeply Catholic family. My husband and I were married in a Catholic church; we decided to put our kids into Catholic school.
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me; like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started binge-watching TV, when that became a thing due to Netflix a few years ago, the first thing I watched was 'Lost.' It was summer break from grad school, and I watched it all in a row, like as many hours a day as I could, as though I were clocking in at a job.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm identified as a fiction writer at parties, the question comes pretty quickly. 'Did you go to school for it?' someone asks. 'Yes,' I say. 'Where?' they ask, because I don't usually offer it. 'I went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop,' I say.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in love with a girl in my class when I was in primary school, and she obviously thought I was a freak, so that wasn't working out. And the the guys in my class, every two weeks they'd say, 'Hey, we spoke to her, and she really likes you now. You should go and ask her again.' And then I'd go and ask her again.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020