- Money
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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
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been the girl the kids in school would be like, 'What is she wearing?' Then eventually some trends would stick.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to graduate school at Harvard University in 1954. My thesis supervisor, Julian Schwinger, had about a dozen doctoral students at a time. Getting his ear was as difficult as it was rewarding. I called my thesis 'The Vector Meson in Elementary Particle Decays', and it showed an early commitment to an electroweak synthesis.
- Elton
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job was playing 'Nurse 2' in a film by Ben Elton called 'Maybe Baby,' and the first actors I worked with professionally were Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson. I was totally star-struck. I got that job on my final day of drama school, so it was a nice bridge into the professional world.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.
- Obsession
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being raised as an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, The Mormons, I became an Eagle scout, and after graduating high school, I went on a full-time church mission to the West Indies for 2 years.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you live in the projects, everything you need is in a mile radius: a basketball court, an indoor gym, a school, a grocery store, a shopping center.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was super cool in school.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in Milwaukee, I would go into this sneaker shop near my mom's salon and chop it up with the older heads about music. At school, I would make drum noises on the table so much that I would always get suspended.
- Mom And Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices.
- Regret
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020