Quotes of: Film-school Keyword

In high school I barely made the rodeo team. But I wasn’t good enough to start, so I just rode the bench.

Great Listener Series Mute Women

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

I always thought high school was supposed to be a time for finding yourself, but I guess that's only if you fit into the mold people have made for you.

Beneath His Darkness

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

Charles Kuralt

Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we normally peak in high school. I first qualified for the Olympics team during my sophomore year in high school, when I was 15 years old.

Dominique Dawes

When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn't know I was going to become a writer - I just knew I'd never been happy in school, and I had this strong suspicion I'd be happy doing other things.

Philipp Meyer

By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still ...

Sal Albanese

I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or shoul...

Chrisette Michele

First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.

Damien Chazelle

While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school a...

Russell Crowe

Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio' and 'Snow White' that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part...

Robert Stromberg

This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

ADHD - Living Without Brakes

This is followed by laughter because we're in high school, which means we're predictable and almost everything is funny, especially if it's someone else's public humiliation.

All the Bright Places

Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

In high school I got voted most likely to get voted for something. Even though I was the only one who voted, it still felt terrific being nominated.

It Occurred to Me

I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

Agatha, what do you see when you look in the mirror?" "I don't look in mirrors." "Why is that?" "Because horses and hogs don't sit around ogling their reflections!

The School for Good and Evil

Agatha: "If you say anything smug or stuck-up or shallow, I'll have Reaper follow you home." Sophie: "But then I can't talk!

The School for Good and Evil

Sophie: "For the Create-A-Tale Competition, your story ended with Snow White eaten by vultures and Cinderella drowning her-self in a tub." Agatha: "I thought it was a better ending.

The School for Good and Evil