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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 one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if anyone knows if they're ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotland, in a classical acting course, and my first year, I remember one of my tutors telling me that I couldn't act, and I should give up and all this sort of thing, and then, they cast me as Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My voice gets recognized before anything else. It's always gotten attention. In choruses at church and school, I started as a tenor, moved to a baritone and finally became a bass. I knew then that my voice would be my instrument. Now if I want to hide, I just keep my mouth shut.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and mother do not know literacy. I cannot go to school due to financial difficulties. I started to working at a butcher as an apprentice when I was 14.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
- Nov 07, 2020
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
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- Nov 07, 2020