School Quotes
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After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'
Jasper Carrott
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No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not.
Atul Gawande
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A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.
Jim Murphy
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I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.
Danny McBride
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I remember dealing with bullies in high school and being put down because I was different.
Busy Philipps
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When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.
Carson Daly
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Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.
David Schwimmer
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The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.
Dave Eggers
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I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.
James McAvoy
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Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.
Adam McKay
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My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.
Billy Baldwin
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My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.
Christina Aguilera
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They tried to put me at tight end once, but I would end up just blocking people when they were actually trying to throw the ball to me. I was probably in middle school. It just didn't stick. Except on running plays.
Edwin Jackson
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I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.
Allison Scagliotti
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I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.
Edwin Markham
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When you're being bullied, it can feel like no one cares, and I'm so excited to tell the teens at the schools I visit that I wouldn't be there if their school didn't care.
Jay Asher
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Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches.
Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
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I think I could probably make $5 to $10m movies for a very long time and live a perfectly good life doing it. I'd probably get paid as well as a surgeon, which is pretty damn remarkable for a guy who went to film school.
Jeff Nichols
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I work with the parents. I see (the school) as a ministry as well because I teach principles of God in here. You don't just stop at the thing that you teach. You teach the whole person.
Georgia Taylor
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The old fiction room at my high school was a small box of wonders, and no matter how long I spent investigating its seven and a half overstuffed shelves, I never stopped discovering treasures.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
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As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.
Jason Clarke
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I don't know if I was popular in high school. My school was actually not really clique-y, which was nice. I went to a very artsy school, so everyone was kind of friends with each other. I was trying to be popular more, like, in junior high and elementary school and dealt with all that backstabbing and drama.
Lili Simmons
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I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.
Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
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I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It’s happened quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn’t stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time.
Angelina Jolie