- Feelings
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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
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got out of school, I lived the myth of Horatio Alger, and my company was on the cover of 'Fortune' magazine because it processed over ten percent of NASDAQ's daily trading volume. I had achieved what I thought was the pinnacle of success in this proud, techno-capitalist country.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
- Behaved
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
- Rubbish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was rubbish at school.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020