School Quotes
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I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school. I'd learned to read and write, but it was still a real struggle for me, as it is to this day.
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School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like sergeants. I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.
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I look back at my old school journals, and they're full of self-hatred, full of me condemning myself for not being prettier, richer, more popular.
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I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.
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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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One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.
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I came when I was in high school as part of a student exchange program with the Jewish Community Center in New Jersey, to Ramat Eliyahu. You come and volunteer for five weeks at a day camp. I was a teenager - I couldn't really appreciate it as much, and now I come back as an adult and I can really get the flavor of the city, and I love it.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.
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I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.
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'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.
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I had crushes on women - actually I loved charismatic, extreme people, women or men. By high school I was saying I must be a lesbian, because if you are attracted to women, you're a lesbian. I was also attracted to men, but I didn't get along with men.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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I was so flat-chested in high school that I thought I'd better be funny if guys were going to like me.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
