- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I tried twice to get into drama school and didn't, so I worked my way up through the fringe.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
In school I was pretty fast.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
- Enroll
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked about it, and I decided to enroll at the same school. I was 14. I guess you could say I just got lucky.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, I wrote a play that I sent off to a competition that took second place. I got a check for a hundred dollars. I never cashed it, because obviously it was worth way more than a hundred dollars.
- Nov 07, 2020
When my kids were very young, I have seen them crying, as they didn't want to go to school.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, my dream was to go to the NBA. But when recruiting came around, the letters for football compared to basketball were like 25 to one, and my one wasn't from Duke.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really.
- Mayor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was director of governmental affairs at the Cleveland school district. I served in the administration of Mayor Michael R. White.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
AdNectar was born out of a class project at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in January of 2008. The founders are all avid social network users and we wanted to see if we could discover the optimal way for advertisers to reach consumers in a way that felt authentic and organic, and yet was scalable to a mass audience.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don’t feel I’m in competition with anyone. My sense is of it being like school: I don’t want to beat anyone but I don’t want to get left behind. That’s a great motivator. I like impressing my friends.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.
- Exam
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.
- Grammar School
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- Nov 07, 2020