- King
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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
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.
- Confirmed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home.
- Nose
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- Nov 07, 2020
In school, I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to several public schools. I went to religious school. I was thrown out of Hebrew school, which was the final straw. They said, 'God doesn't like you anymore. Go eat pork.'
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that what we called the Pixar sensibility goes back even further. It is kind of a CalArts sensibility because so many of the people who are creative instrumental people at Pixar came from that school.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.
- No Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020