School Quotes
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My parents have always been incredibly supportive. Even when I dropped out of high school, they said, 'We trust you, we believe in you.'
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To be a director, you have to think you're the best. Ever since I went to film school, I imagined that you have to think deep down that you want to be Martin Scorsese or you want to be P.T. Anderson. Like, am I as good as those guys? Absolutely not. I feel like I keep learning, and I feel like I keep getting better.
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When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.
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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
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When I began teaching, my colleagues and I quickly realized that our students didn't have access to the same resources we had growing up. We knew there were supplies and resources that could help our students, but our school district simply couldn't afford them.
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People don't remember that during the Fifties and Sixties there was a Cold War, and kids were getting under their desks during school because they thought they were going to get bombed. So it wasn't really that ideal at all.
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My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.
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One of my favorite things about being the host of 'The School of Greatness' is that I get to learn from the best minds in the world about stuff I am fascinated by.
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We all remember special days at school, whether it was going on a field trip, doing a science experiment, or performing in a school play.
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Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.
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My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.
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I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.
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During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
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I went to acting school, and I polished my dancing, but I didn't really learn how to fight.
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'Welcome to the Dollhouse' is great. Even though it's about a girl in middle school, to me, that feels like the most honest reflection of what being a kid around that age feels like.
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Dont forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.
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I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.
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I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.
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Even in high school, I had friends that I didn't know were gay until years later. I'd find out on Facebook or something and be like, 'Oh, that explains some things,' or 'Wow, no wonder they were so cool.'
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A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.
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I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.
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I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.
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We've read scripts, and I think right now we are just focusing in on school.
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We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.
