Derek Magyar Quotes

CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.

Derek Magyar

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• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • School
  • Me
  • Wanted

• 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

• I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • Think
  • Hand

• I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

  

  Idris Elba
  • School
  • Bad
  • Never

• We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • School
  • Africa
  • Canada

• I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • School
  • High
  • Doing

• There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • School
  • Why
  • Year

• My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Good
  • School
  • She

• Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Live
  • School
  • Business

• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • School
  • Education
  • Door

• I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Real
  • School
  • Love

• There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Good
  • Important
  • School

• I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

  

  Laura Marano
  • School
  • High
  • Kind

• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I suppose I've got a natural rhythm. When I was little, I used to just dance a lot and have some fun. I'd never been taught to dance. I've never been to dance school. I do my own little dance moves.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
  • Fun
  • Dance

• Boarding school is a wicked thing.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • School

• Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She's got on red go-go boots and a catholic school plaid skirt ... way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now...She's got on her typically very, very tight shirt. She looks like she has sausage casing wrapping around her upper body ... I know she's very good, and I'm not supposed to be critical of ESPN people, so I won't ... but Hannah Storm ... come on now! Stop! What are you doing? ... She's what I would call a Holden Caulfield fantasy at this point.

  

  Tony Kornheiser
  • People
  • School
  • Today

• I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Team

• If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving companies, and the biographies and autobiographies of the world's most successful people. I relentlessly implement the best ideas into my businesses.

  

  Clay Clark
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.

  

  Derek Magyar
  • School