School Quotes
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Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn't want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real life experiences.
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I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.
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My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.
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I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
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If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another actor.
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When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches... but boy, it has changed.
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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
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We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.
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I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.
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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
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I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.
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I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.
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It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel.
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I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.
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My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
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I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.
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Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.
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I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.
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I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school, I found out that Al Gore was launching a new TV network; they were looking for passionate young storytellers to transform television, which was, like, ambiguous but magnificent-sounding.
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Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
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I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots.
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All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.
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I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.
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I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.
