Charles Clarke (Charles Rodway Clarke) Quotes

But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

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• As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • School
  • High
  • Service

• It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Easier
  • Print

• I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Book
  • Think
  • Challenge

• When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • School
  • Happy

• Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Book
  • Terrible
  • Video

• After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • School
  • Art
  • Design

• There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go out there and sell it.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Book
  • Like
  • Better

• When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Book
  • Learn
  • Classmates

• Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,' 'quirky'... it's like a caste system. You're either in, or you're out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.

  

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka
  • School
  • Heart
  • Sad

• I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser's, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do... it's weird, non?

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Book

• When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

  

  Chandra Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.

  

  Bjork
  • People
  • School
  • Girl

• I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • School

• Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• Yes, you can be passionate about school and fashion simultaneously. The two are not mutually exclusive - one doesn't cancel out the other.

  

  Marley Dias
  • School
  • Fashion

• One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing - being a data bank - and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Book
  • War
  • Peace

• I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Good
  • Mind
  • School

• I never was much of a game player, but I loved to be on the computer.

  

  Cory Arcangel
  • Loved
  • Computer
  • To Be

• The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

  

  Dee Brown
  • Life
  • Why
  • America

• But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

  

  Charles Clarke
  • School
  • Book
  • Enjoy