School Quotes - Page 35

• I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Play, Acting, Difficulty

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• Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

  Michael Eisner

  Couple, Years, Graduates

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• I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

  Idris Elba

  Bookworms

  "The Midas touch". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2009.

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• Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Eight, Years, Financial

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• I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

  Eminem

  Mom, Mother, Years

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• Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.

  Paul Engle

  Art, Gone, Why Not

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• I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

  Brian Eno

  Art, Magic, Tape

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• You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.

  Mike Epps

  Mean, People, Would Be

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.

  Mike Epps

  Missing, Watches, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

  Gloria Estefan

  Home, Thinking, Perfect

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• I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.

  Rupert Everett

  Seven, Cried

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• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  Paloma Faith

  Art, Ideas, Drawing

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• I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

  Edie Falco

  Letting Go, Song, Kids

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• One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.

  Warren Farrell

  Girl, Teacher, Children

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• I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

  Paul Feig

  Sex, Kids, Glasses

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks". Interview With Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. April 9, 2012.

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• When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

  Paul Feig

  Swings, Late, Disco

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• It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!

  Allyson Felix

  Thinking, Years, Track

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• Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

  Tom Felton

  Nice, People, Conversation

  "Tom Felton Talks About Reading, Collecting, and Being Draco". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.

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• I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

  Tom Felton

  Aggravation, People, Different

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• All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

  Craig Ferguson

  Pain, Drama, Fighting

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• I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Teacher, Existentialism, Argument

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• The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.

  Will Ferrell

  Girl, College, Later In Life

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• Enjoy the little fun things - like taking your kids to school - before they're all grown up.

  Will Ferrell

  Fun, Kids, Littles

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• I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.

  Will Ferrell

  One Day, Acting, Pilots

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. November 08, 2006.

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• I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

  Will Ferrell

  Basketball, Soccer, Regret

  "Will Ferrell Q&A". Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. February 12, 2008.

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