477 quotes found
“I always enjoyed school, and I enjoyed being focused on learning - and I know that sounds nerdy, but there were so many wonderful elements of going to school with just girls. I wouldn't brush my hair.”
“I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the lear...”
“I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking.”
“I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.”
“Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.”
“Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughn...”
“I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, bu...”
“Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish. Religion may not be as indispensable, but...”
“I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.”
“As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.”
“Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.”
“For a time in high school, I had glasses, braces, and a cast. I like to call this look 'no date for homecoming.'”
“Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.”
“A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is...”
“I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me; like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.”
“Someone had an eye on me as I was leaving high school. I had a chance to record demos, but they were kind of wanting to make a pop singer out of me, of the 'X Factor' variety. I didn't feel comfort...”
“I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected.”
“I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains.”
“I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.”
“God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.”
