Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
“Yet that is considered an excellent school, and I dare say it would be if the benighted lady did not think it… — Louisa M. Alcott Copy Share Image
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school,… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my brand new… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I used to always look forward to my school summer holidays where Saba and I would go and meet bhai. It was… — Soha Ali Khan Copy Share Image
As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
My dad's American, and my mom's French. I lived in France for the first 18 years of my life, then came here… — Stephanie Szostak Copy Share Image
At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything… — Sophie Hunger Copy Share Image
I sort of tried to get a basketball scholarship out of high school, but that didn't happen. Then I started working for… — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
More than half of my former students teach - elementary and high school, community college and university. I taught them to be… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
There was a commonality in a lot of the private school experiences that I had of children whose lives were not their… — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to… — Jensen Ackles Copy Share Image
I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing 'Measure for Measure.' I immediately felt it… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I was interested in wildlife conservation, and I chose Georgia because they supposedly had a good forestry school. I figured it might… — Fred Schneider Copy Share Image
That's why the army sends all its future generals to what we call "charm school." As soon as you are a general,… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
In terms of my childhood, it was normal. You go through school, do well in school, and then I went to university.… — Manny Jacinto Copy Share Image
I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do… — Iain De Caestecker Copy Share Image
Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue… — John Katzman Copy Share Image
There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
My father, Jimmy Walker, was the first pick in the 1967 draft, but I never met him. He passed in 2007. I… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
My first experience was when I played when I was really young, like elementary school. I was a striker, right wing, I… — Mark Ingram II Copy Share Image
I dedicated most of my life to basketball, and that was my plan until my junior year of college when I got… — Tucker Halpern Copy Share Image
I am able to say that I was very much liked at the school. I even had quite some ascendancy over my… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
My mother is a teacher, and she worked tirelessly in the public school system, working the afterschool programs and the like, so… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for… — Kim Swift Copy Share Image
I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
When I used to live in Chicago - went to school there for four years and lived there for two years after… — Joe Keery Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a broadcaster, sportscaster, or gameshow host from a very early age. I did my first broadcasting when I… — Ralph Strangis Copy Share Image
We work really hard. I work harder now than I've ever worked in my life. I didn't finish high school or go… — Jared Swilley Copy Share Image
My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife,… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I went to drama school so I had quite a regimented classical training, regimented process of analyzing a script. I'll go through… — Ncuti Gatwa Copy Share Image
My eyesight had always been good but at school I went swimming one day and the chlorine affected me badly. I was… — Judd Trump Copy Share Image
I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we… — Lawrence Jordan Copy Share Image
I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that… — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
I failed my 11-plus and ended up working in a factory after I left school. But then I passed my audition on… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image