- She
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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 School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best job was when I was at drama school and I cleaned flats in the Barbican. I loved it. They were spotless anyway, so you'd just watch the telly and flick a duster around.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't cheer in high school. I was the farthest thing from a cheerleader in high school. We made fun of cheerleaders. Everybody did!
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.
- Loser
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of a loser at ballet school. It's all rich kids, and I was not a wealthy kid. I didn't have the Chanel butterfly clip everyone else did.
- Ballet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college, my high school best friend and I had a terrible falling-out. It was entirely because of Facebook.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My performing inspiration all started at my performing-arts school back in Atlanta. That was the spark that made me want to perform.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.
- Stay
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the whole, I think I spent a lot of high school just trying to stay under the radar: I don't think I was all that memorable.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The late Victorian Era brought in part-time education. Not everybody went to school, but they were supposed to have a decent level of schooling; they went part-time after 12.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020