Christopher Durang Quotes

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

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• I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • College
  • Acting
  • New York

• When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • College

• I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Music
  • School
  • Career

• College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • American
  • Dream
  • College

• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Art
  • College

• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • School
  • Help
  • High

• Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • College
  • Texas
  • Now

• One half who graduate from college never read another book.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Book
  • College
  • Graduation

• You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Friends
  • Words
  • College

• I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • College
  • English
  • Economics

• College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Experience
  • Black
  • College

• I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • College
  • United States

• Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • School
  • Law
  • College

• I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • College
  • Risk

• My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Life
  • School
  • Father

• I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Time
  • College
  • Search

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Happy
  • College

• I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • College
  • Fighting
  • Child

• We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college.

  

  Daphne Oz
  • Home
  • Parents
  • College

• Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Death
  • Everything
  • Networks

• I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Age
  • Energy
  • Personality

• Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

  

  Christopher Durang
  • College