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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
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.
- Mountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Steichen bought my first photographs that I ever sold. He recognized the style from the school of Black Mountain. After that, it was about twenty years before I sold another photograph.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward Shakespeare. He was a very influential figure in my childhood - I acted in high school a few times, but Mr. Shakespeare got me to lead in 'The Crucible.' I played John Proctor.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to go to the London School of Economics to write my thesis for MIT, under James Meade, Nobelist with Bertil Ohlin in 1977.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early days, I wrote my dissertation for MIT at the London School of Economics, really under James Meade, but my dissertation was five chapters on the theory of capital movement, but it didn't mention money.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
As children we were bombarded by competing answers. Church says one thing, school another. Now as adults it's no surprise that if we discuss the nature of it all, we generally spout some combination of the two, depending on our individual inclination and mood.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020