- 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
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father would chaperone at high-school dances, and the toughest guy in the high school used to want to fight my father. My father broke his hand on a guy's head once in school.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
London is like my second home. I've still got friends there from school and from when I first started in the modelling business - people such as Karen Elson, Jasmine Guinness, Jade Parfitt.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working part-time as a cleaner while I was going to college and then babysitting after school.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 14, I came to school in London. I remember it was very cold, but also having to adjust and become fluent in English.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.
- Pleasant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had jobs from the age of 14, when I arrived in London as a refugee. Aged 17, I'd get up at 4 A.M. to work as a cleaner before school. It wasn't pleasant.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the most exciting thing to leave secondary school and go to college, to have that freedom to study whatever I wanted.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.
- Nov 07, 2020
I made short films in school.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020