I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.
If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.
[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.
I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.
Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.
The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'
A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.
When I was ten, I caught glandular fever and had to have a year off school. My parents arranged for a tutor to keep me on track with my studies.
I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not.
I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.
If you buy a sweater for €1,000 and you know that the funds you are paying are also going to help to build a hospital and a school, wouldn't you think better about it?
