- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I used to play mind games in which I'd try to finish tasks in minutes. My favorite was when I would shower, lay out my school clothes, then devour my dinner - in 15 minutes flat.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
My senior school didn't play football. It was a rugby and cricket school, and as I was on a sports scholarship, I was forced to play rugby.
- Chamberlain
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad had a soccer school that he used to run, the Mark Chamberlain Soccer Academy, I used to go to that for two years until the age of seven.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I entered the pros, I was a young kid in the major leagues. I was 18 years old, right out of high school. I thought I knew everything, and I clearly didn't.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, I had to work really hard to get a D in maths. And I wasn't slacking off; I actually did work quite hard.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not good at picking people up, I'd rather just get to know someone. I'm not an 'opening line' kind of guy; it's not really my scene. But at school, I was good at talking to girls. I wasn't good at making moves, though.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Utah will always be special to me. They were the school that gave me an opportunity, and I grew so much as a person and player there.
- Film School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go to film school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just interested in science, and I try to keep track of what's going on and get my head around it - inflation, the multiverse, whatever. It's very hard for me because I don't have a scientific background, and I wasn't any good at science at school, but all of that stuff I just find incredibly attractive and fascinating.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020