- Commute
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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 was just over high school, and I was kind of artsy.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they really needed to hear something that one of your characters says or thinks... that's just rewarding and humbling.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really didn't enjoy myself at secondary school, but the one thing I did leave with was eight fantastic, beautiful, brilliant, amazing girlfriends.
- Purple
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my kids were in the school play for the first time, I decided I had to make the costumes from scratch and bought material, wadding, dyed T-shirts, and purple tights so I could say I made the octopus costume myself.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to study in Spain for a year after school. It was either that or Russian, so I went for the easy option. I love Spain and go quite regularly. I've done a bit of Spanish theatre.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
When kids my age were crying over girls, my first heartbreak was not because of some silly school time crush but because I lost out on playing for Delhi's Under 14 team, even after I was selected in the playing eleven.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020