- 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 mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.
- Bracket
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- Nov 07, 2020
'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
'High School Musical' is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.
- Cool Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing well in school was a cool thing to do when I was in high school, so I had a blast.
- Big Hit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to NYU drama school, so I was a very serious actress. I used to do monologues with a Southern accent, and I was really into drama and drama school. And then, in my last year of drama school, I did a comedy show, and the show became a big hit on campus.
- DJ
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.
- Egypt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Egypt, and my family moved to London when I was seven. I grew up mostly in Clapham, where I also went to school after a brief stint in Whitechapel.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I didn't feel less in any way than my more affluent friends from school.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends.
- George W. Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have known George W. Bush slightly since we were both in high school, and I studied him closely as governor. He is neither mean nor stupid. What we have here is a man shaped by three intertwining strands of Texas culture, combined with huge blinkers of class. The three Texas themes are religiosity, anti-intellectualism, and machismo.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020