Semester Quotes - Page 2

• My dean gave me permission to model during my work semester, even though I was in the Criminal Justice Department. I don't know whether I'd ever have become a model if he hadn't let me do that.

  Beverly Johnson

  Justice, Criminals, Dean

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means.

  Martin Scorsese

  Mean, Two, Vocation

  Source: www.npr.org

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• And once I was in college, about - maybe the end of my first semester of my sophomore year, I realized that college just was not my jam and that I felt like I was learning more when is actually on set. And I think a lot of that had to do with - I was working while I was in college. I was on "227," so I didn't get a chance to really be immersed in the culture of my school.

  Regina King

  School, College, Thinking

  "For Actress Regina King, A Childhood Gig Launched A Career In Hollywood". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 21, 2016.

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• It was tough. I told [my kids] mommy is on her semester abroad, which is still going on apparently.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Kids, Tough, Stills

  Source: www.politico.com

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• In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a listening meditation after that, after the body has been loosened up and warmed up and is ready. We do the listening. After that, there's the journaling of the experience, which they do each time throughout the semester to the point that I have them write a final paper on what they've experienced.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Writing, Exercise, Class

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

  Truman Capote

  Want, University

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.

  Garry Winogrand

  Wall, Students, Now And Then

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.

  Jay Mohr

  Order, Language, Construction

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

  Blake Judd

  School, Theory, Halfway

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses, I decided to take some philosophy. Quite by chance, I took a philosophy of science course in which the entire semester was devoted to reading Locke's Essay. I was hooked. For the next few semesters, I took nothing but philosophy and math courses, and it wasn't long before I realised that it was the philosophy that really moved me.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Reading, Math

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• By the end of the semester [in the high school] I was the only one up in front of the class everyday. Actually I could have passed the class four times over because every time you got in front of the class you got extra credit.That was the only class I got an A in and it was the funniest report card because it read Speech - A but everything else was just D, D, D, D.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  School, Class, Everyday

  Source: goseetalk.com

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• [Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.

  Jon Gordon

  School, Band, Manhattan

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• I was fortunate enough to take classes with Mel Powell at Yale University as well as a semester with Sam Adler at the Eastman School of Music. From Mel I learned to appreciate improvisatory ingenuity and from Sam rhythmic athleticism.

  Barbara Harbach

  School, Appreciate, Enough

  Source: www.barbaraharbach.com

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• Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

  Caitlin Rose

  Jobs, Growing Up, Mean

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• My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.

  David Sedaris

  Views, Names, Firsts

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• I had interest in acting. I started as a drama major in college. I got to school and said, "What am I going to do with this?" But I didn't know anybody in the business, and it seemed like - I don't know. I had a teacher who said "Less than 1 percent of you will ever make a living being an actor." That was how we opened the semester.

  Greg Kinnear

  Teacher, Drama, School

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2008.

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• I went to Oberlin College, and they don't have a film major, but they do have what's called an individual major, where you can sort of pitch to a committee your own course study, and if they approve it, you have essentially just designed your own major. So Oberlin doesn't have a film major; they do have a film minor... And then my spring semester of my junior year, I went off to NYU film school as a visiting student - they have a program for kids from other schools to come in for a semester.

  Ed Helms

  Spring, School, Kids

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• Arriving to class late is disruptive of the learning process. I think that it is disrespectful to both the instructor and the students. I generally find a problem with students being tardy to my 9:10 a.m. class, in which students would come in thirty minutes late to this fifty minute class. I started locking my door at 9:15 second semester.

  Patricia McCormick

  Thinking, Doors, Class

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• It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's what my English teacher said. I can't really remember. I read it last semester." - Your parents must be so proud you can read." - They are. They bought me a pony and everything when I did a book report on Cat in the Hat.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Teacher, Book, Cat

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• In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play

  Danny Glover

  Communication, Play, San Francisco

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• I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

  Derek Luke

  Kids, College, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

  David Gilmour

  Real, Book, Teaching

  "Canadian author David Gilmour sparks furore over female writers" by Liz Bury, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2013.

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• I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

  Tobias Wolff

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The APR provides a real-time snapshot of what is happening with our individual student-athletes today. However, it does not address some of the realities that exist in sports played during the spring semester, where student-athletes accept professional opportunities before graduating or before exhausting their eligibility.

  DeLoss Dodds

  Sports, Real, Spring

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• My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Smart, School, Effort

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