- Lost
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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
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The smartest and most successful people I know are the people who are constantly evolving, always learning. It does not end with school.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went to a university in France for maybe a month and dropped out.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had some experience in track and field in school, but I did have to train to be able to play Jesse Owens - to be a runner, to be an Olympian.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been pretty reserved, but after taking drama classes in middle school to get more comfortable performing in front of people, I thought I should try out for television.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got obsessed with impersonations: impersonating people that I knew - people, not famous people but people like my family. At first, it was just fun; it's always been just fun. But I sort of got to a point in maybe seventh or eighth grade where I started getting heavily involved in drama programs via programs in my high school.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
- Good Grades
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made good grades in school.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the first concert I ever went to was maybe a Five Iron Frenzy concert or something when I was in high school.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be on dance team in high school; it was called drill team in Texas. And when I started doing theater sophomore year, I had to make a decision which thing I was gonna follow. It was a big shift because I sort of had all these friends on dance squad, and when I started to do theater, my whole identity shifted.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn't really my thing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one of my biggest internal struggles - the whole schooling system in London and the fact that my kids are going to a posh school. It freaks me out.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020