Able Quote by Rick Riordan

It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this…

— Becky Lynch

I was a real unfocused academic student, always fiddling around in class, or doing something silly and thinking of something else that had nothing…

— Adriano Zumbo

There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.

— Simon Cowell

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before…

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

It was the only thing I could do at school: I was rubbish at everything else but I could read aloud. It was the…

— Paterson Joseph

It was like my part-time job as a kid to be an adventurer... in my head. I used to sword-fight in the garden and…

— Elliot Knight

I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know,…

— Jim Butcher

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of…

— Tom Holt

When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved

— Loretta Swit

I was a real serious kid, real intense, and there were a lot of things that I was doing by myself I took seriously,…

— Andrew W.K

It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by servants. I don't remember…

— Spike Milligan

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

— Natalie Prass