- Focal
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really felt pushed at school or that I was struggling; it came naturally.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham Forest. I did that to keep me stimulated.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I was sent to private school, it was purely because mum and dad wanted the best for me, and they worked their socks off in order to be able to give me that.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was spending all my time at the 'Crimson' - like, 70 hours a week - and I didn't go to class for, like, a year. I failed out of school. I had to leave Harvard, really, halfway through my tenure as the 'Crimson' managing editor. It was this incredibly humiliating and shocking experience.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took a detour to France in my senior year in high school. So that's part of what ended up sending me, actually, to Middlebury because I went to school with people who were more from the Northeast.
- Cassette
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020