I’ve always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It’s always been a passion of mine. – Zoe Lister-Jones
I was going to school thinking I was going to do something entirely different, thought acting was just a hobby at that point, met Stanley Kubrick and was like, ‘Whoa, this can be an art form, and you can really move people the way you do simply by acting.’ – Vinessa Shaw
I didn’t see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn’t! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn’t do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different. – Viola Davis
Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else. – Zoe Tapper
At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school. – William Standish Knowles
Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years. – Travis Barker
I hate the school of thought that says work is work and that you have to be unhappy at work because that’s what work is. I totally respect the fact that not everyone has the choices that I have, and that some people have to work jobs that they don’t like because they don’t have any other options. – Will Poulter
When I applied for grad school, I did not specify genre. I said I wanted an MFA in Creative Writing. I was so cute and stupid! The admissions committee at Pitt decided to put me in poetry. – Terrance Hayes
The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads. – Terry Zwigoff
I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: ‘Anthem,’ by Ayn Rand; ‘1984,’ by George Orwell; or ‘Brave New World,’ by Aldous Huxley. – Sara Shepard
You can’t hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I’m just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker. – Tracy Morgan
When I went to college, I was doing well in school, but I didn’t have any drive to study. – Shiloh Fernandez
My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School. – Thomas Peterffy
When I got into junior high school, that’s when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time. – will.i.am
The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was on a rooftop of a building inside the slums, a second story building, the only second story building inside the slums. And that rooftop did not have any ceiling, only half a tin sheet. That was our first school. – Shukla Bose
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate. – Simon Newcomb
In reality, I’ve always been an actor – since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on. – Zach McGowan
I’ve been embracing gray hair since… high school, and I don’t think that anything’s changed since then. – Taylor Hicks
From a young age, I wanted to play in the NBA. Oh well… It was when I was a senior in college that I fell for film, but even then, it wasn’t documentaries. It wasn’t until I ended up in graduate school at Southern Illinois University that I really discovered documentaries and thought that maybe that would be my calling. – Steve James
Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast. – Terrence J
At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn’t in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, ‘This is crazy.’ So I grew a beard. – Thomas G. Stemberg
The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices. – Walter Gropius