- Chattering
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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
- Davis Cup
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- Nov 07, 2020
And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I graduated from high school in 1962.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in '98 or so when I was in film school I was working on lighting for a movie in Georgia, out in the middle of nowhere at a gas station. Inside the gas station they had a bunch of old home remedies like castor oil, and one of them was a protein supplement called Beef, Iron & Wine. I just dropped the Beef part.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up eating and loving Persian food, going to school, and everyone making fun of me.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
- Leaving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.
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- Nov 07, 2020