School Quotes
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I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.
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I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.
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I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
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I almost had to exhaust myself at modeling before I could say, 'O.K., I'm ready for school.'
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If my dad was alive, I wouldn't have gone to boarding school, and I wouldn't have had the success I've had.
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I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.
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I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very different; it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place.
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The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
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My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.
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I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
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I didn't go to film school.
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I didn't know what acting school was, so I went onto the computer and typed 'acting school.' I found one in Berlin, and I found ones in Vienna, Zurich, and London. I went to all of those places to audition. You were supposed to have two monologues, and I only had one.
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My parents wanted me to go to school.
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One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
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Working with Mrs. Clarke at The Gryphon School is when I really began to think of acting as a potential career.
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I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.
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In cases where you're trying to do more complex, sophisticated tasks in middle school, that's not as easily translatable into a multiple-choice test, ... If we used more authentic assessments, we might find they're not doing just as well but maybe better.
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I did apply for drama school when I was 17, and I didn't get in; I had a really bad audition.
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I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.
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I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.
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I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.
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This was what a lot of us, mainly young men, did in the summers in northern Arizona. This is how I put myself through college. I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.
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Girls are almost always socialized to be perfect: 'Smile, do well in school, don't take too many risks.'
