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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
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the second half of primary school, I liked live-action shows and giant-monster movies, and then in junior high, I got into regular movies.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be an actress at a very early age and then decided to become an orthodontist after working in Dr. Richard Boyd's office in high school.
- Entertain People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I acted out a lot. I was very nerdy. I was very isolated, which I made up for by kind of talking and trying to entertain people and get them to like me, so I did theatre and improv in high school and college, but always as a hobby.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.
- Grander
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dartmouth is a small school with high-caliber teaching. Our classes were all taught by professors, not teaching assistants. I felt like that was a school where I could make a big splash. The opportunities would be grander and more robust for me there than at a school with 40,000 students.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't mind being in a school with a small African-American population. The African-American-community was very tight, and that was great. But I also wanted to interact with other types of folks.
- Nov 07, 2020
For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a lot of Marwari friends, both in Holy Angels School and Ethiraj College.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting a laugh was what I'd been doing with my family and at school since the age of three.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Alain de Botton and listen to his little 'School of Life' YouTube vids as I do the dishes.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020