School Quotes
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During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.
J. D. Vance
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
Irina Shayk
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I didn't have my first serious boyfriend until I was 23. Then after that, I went out with a guy I'd been best friends with all through drama school.
Maxine Peake
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I studied classical music in high school.
Lauren Ambrose
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I used to get called Lady Penelope at school because the other kids thought I spoke nicely.
Penny Lancaster
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I was a super nerd in school.
Chloe Bridges
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
Rachael Leigh Cook
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I have a little easier time watching the NFL than college or high school. I used to go to the high school games, and now I have trouble with it. The NFL players get big rewards from it. I feel at least the NFL has made big changes to help their safety. And they're adults - they can make good decisions.
Ann McKee
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When I was a senior in high school, I did an internship with a law firm. And it was very clear that I did not have what it took to do that kind of work.
Courtney B. Vance
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There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.
Landon Donovan
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
M. J. Rose
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The elementary school I went to, Valencia Park, was focused on the arts.
Andra Day
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
Imelda May
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In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.
Avi
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
Kate Voegele
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Yes, you can be passionate about school and fashion simultaneously. The two are not mutually exclusive - one doesn't cancel out the other.
Marley Dias
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And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.
George J. Mitchell
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
J. Michael Bishop
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Life is a school of probability.
Walter Bagehot
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I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.
Kate Brown
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This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.
William Shatner
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The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
Abbe Pierre
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
Walter Dean Myers
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I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.
John Mayall