#school

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school. ↗

— Edward Norton

#going #having #i #i remember #kid

I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started. ↗

— Gary Numan

#arranged #coming #concerts #crush #dad

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training. ↗

— Alison Moyet

#bands #completely #done #i #job

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship. ↗

— Ryan Murphy

#afford #been #film #film school #get

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#acting #ad #after #audition #fifth

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#america #century #change #constant #designed

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play. ↗

— Sam Neill

#armstrong #common #heard #i #i can

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#dependence #his #insofar #only #opportunities

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans. ↗

— Gary Neville

#ever #fans #football #gets #grown

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#childhood #comfortable #giraffe #i #lot