- 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
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.
- Fortunate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every high school I went to, I joined in the middle of the year, so sports helped. But you see a lot of bullies when you move to eight states, I'll say that.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, I faced bullies - or the 'big dogs' at school. What I wanted 'Red Rising' to be is not necessarily an indictment on bullies, but it reflects my experiences and attitudes that I had with bullies growing up.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was hellbent on going to drama school, but my mother, rightly, panicked and persuaded me to go to university on the grounds that a degree would be 'something to fall back on.' Whilst at college, I realised I wasn't good enough or robust enough to be an actress.
- Locked
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D. But I still read a lot. Thrillers and war novels, mostly, along with the occasional literary novel from my parents' bookshelf.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second semester, I took a class in life and literature of the Southwest, and that's where I first heard about these events along the border in 1915-1918, what Anglos called the Bandit Wars.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In drama school, I learned I wasn't as good as I thought I was. But I loved stage combat, and I knew that would pay the bills.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020