- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in the eighth standard and was selected as part of my school to meet Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was on a rooftop of a building inside the slums, a second story building, the only second story building inside the slums. And that rooftop did not have any ceiling, only half a tin sheet. That was our first school.
- Nov 07, 2020
I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A 5-acre school each in Noida and Gurgaon is what we have; it costs Rs. 50 crore to buy the land and another Rs. 50 crore to build the property. That's the capital cost alone.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to college, I was doing well in school, but I didn't have any drive to study.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.
- Racism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been following the attempt to initiate or revamp federal involvement in the health of Americans since it was a major topic for my high school debating team in 1947.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a friend during school time, but not much after that. By the time I got to BYU, I was a social mess, an absolute misfit. There is not a shyer, more pathetic kid who stepped on that BYU campus than me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.
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- Nov 07, 2020