Courtney B. Vance Quotes
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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.
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.
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I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
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I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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I was a total dork in high school.
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I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.
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I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
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I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.
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There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.
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The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school.
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First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians.
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HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice. They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality.
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You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.
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The fact I'm the third female Prime Minister, I never grew up believing my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.
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When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.
