School Quotes

• I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I stayed in the house a lot, writing songs or playing video games, watching TV, or chilling with my girlfriend. It wasn't until 9th grade that I got into music. This guy in school heard me singing around the hallway to girls and stuff.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• Regardless of whether it is playing for your school team or playing for Manchester United, winning is great.

  

  Alan Smith
  • Great
  • Team
  • Winning

• I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • High
  • Age

• I couldn't understand what was important about school. Dropping out was the first adult decision I made. If I ever have kids, I would hate for them to drop out. But I wasn't a rebel. I never cared to be against school. I just wanted to do what I wanted to do.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Hate

• When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to school - but I started at 'Newsweek' magazine in 1963, which was before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So it was actually legal to discriminate against women, and 'Newsweek' did.

  

  Ellen Goodman
  • Women
  • School
  • Snow

• Throughout my high school years, I was very quiet, I didn't have many friends. I distanced myself from a lot of people.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Friends
  • High

• I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

  

  David Bailey
  • School
  • Silly

• I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else. So when I was a teen I reached out in a wrong way. I started to be a mugger, to rob people in the streets, just to supply for my needs.

  

  George Foreman
  • People
  • Disguise
  • Muggers

• I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• Same thing happened in the punk movement in the late 70's...a punk band would start, play one gig, and get signed to a major label right away, 'cause it was a trend. That just shows there are a lot of old school dinosaurs in the record industry who need to be weeded out.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • School
  • Band

• You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • School
  • High
  • Past

• I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

  

  Jim Fowler
  • School
  • Church
  • Memories

• In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

  

  Andrew Garfield
  • School
  • Pretty

• My family supported me. I wasn't hot-housed at all as a young child; I didn't go to any kind of gifted school. They didn't exist in the very poor parts of England when I grew up in the 1980s. I had a great time to learn, had access to libraries and teachers who were patient and enthusiastic when I showed ability in some subjects.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Winning

• When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • People
  • Kids
  • High

• I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • School
  • High

• It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

  

  Dorothy Hamill
  • Home
  • America
  • Small

• I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.

  

  Emeli Sande
  • Music
  • Important
  • Dream

• With 'SNL,' it's such an iconic institution. Throughout my 20s or maybe even in middle school or high school, it never felt like a real thing. It felt so distant, and I never imagined I could do that.

  

  Kyle Mooney
  • Real
  • School
  • High

• I was living in Evanston, Illinois and I was taking theater classes down the street, and our theater school was kind of affiliated with an agency, and so I went on one audition for whatever that movie was, 'My Stepmother is an Alien' or whatever it was, and 'Roseanne' was my second audition.

  

  Lecy Goranson
  • School
  • Movie
  • Alien

• I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

  

  Aidan Turner
  • School

• But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Church
  • Unknown
  • Rebellion

• I've been very fortunate that I've worked since I left drama school in 1976.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • School
  • Drama

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