I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.
I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.
Here in California, it's living the life, going to school, playing sports and hanging out with my friends. But, when I'm in North Carolina, its all work, work, work.
Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.
I work out every day. It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time.
Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.
I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school.
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.
Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.
I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.
Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
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.
I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.
I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.
