“I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.” KnowsDoneFactsSchoolRememberCompanySawsHappenedDramaPerformancesCheeksYou Like It Author:David Oyelowo
“I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.” WritingSchoolSawsTalentLateTeensZines Author:Sonja Sohn
“I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.” HomeMightSchoolSawsCollegeHigh SchoolEntertainingOutsidersSchooled Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.” SchoolNextSawsTeamFootballBasketballHigh SchoolCoachesNext DayFootball TeamBasketball Team Author:Charles Mingus
“I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.” KnowsBelieveWholeSchoolYoungGirlI BelieveSawsModelsWhole LifeHesitation Author:Nancy Pelosi
“Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or '92 I saw one of those Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled billboards. I was just really arrested by it. It was kind of my first foray into contemporary art. It was a turning point for me as to what art could be and what it meant and the impact it could have.” FirstsKindArtSchoolGrowing UpSawsGrowingHigh SchoolImpactContemporaryArrestedTurning PointsContemporary ArtBillboardsSurrealistImpressionistsTorres Author:Chloe Sevigny
“Wildness was ever sounding in our ears, and Nature saw to it that besides school lessons some of her own lessons should be learned, perhaps with a view to the time when we should be called to wander in wildness to our heart’s content.” ShouldHeartSchoolViewsSawsLessonsEarsWanderWildness Book:The Wilderness Journeys Source: The Wilderness Journeys
“It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.” SchoolClassRolesSawsStudentsDramaHigh SchoolProductionsGiftedSteppenwolfDrama Class Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007
“Many of the early greats of sf Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular saw themselves as educators. The didactic thrust of science fiction got the genre initially pegged as children's fare. It was seen, at its best, as an extension of school and, at its worst, as teenage wish fulfillment.” ChildrenStoriesSchoolWishFictionSawsWorstParticularScience FictionGenreFulfillmentExtensionsTeenagePublishersThrustEducatorDidactic Author:Samuel R. Delany
“Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I'd think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.” ThinkingShouldSaidSchoolLastsFilmFormNightSawsBasketballHigh SchoolDecidedYeahPopsLast NightWadeFree ThrowD Wade Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.” PeopleWorldIdeasSchoolClassSawsMiddleFairsBackgroundsMiddle ClassWorking ClassBest Of Both Worlds Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.” IfsWorldSchoolReligionWealthPrayerCitiesSawsWallKingsWorshipLettersTheatreTemplesCoinsTraverse Author:Plutarch
“High school was the first time I ever saw spoken word poetry. The first place I ever performed a poem was at my school, so in some ways it was the nucleus of how it all started. For me I think high school was a period of trying to figure myself out, and poetry was one of the ways I did that, and was a very helpful avenue to try to do that.” ThinkingWayTryingFirstsSchoolSawsFiguresPeriodsHigh SchoolFirst TimeHelpfulAvenuesSpoken WordNucleus Author:Phil Kay
“I remember I prayed to God. I was like, "Just let me be on TV." Let my friends see me on TV in a good thing. I like, if I'm funny a little bit on a commercial and then I don't need to act ever again. "Just let them see me." And then it worked. I got the commercial. I was on TV. My friends all saw me. I was a kind of a star at school for like three days. And then it faded away and I was hungry and I had to like make another deal with God. I remember it still.” IfsNeedsKindLittlesStillsSchoolRememberThreeStarsBitsDealsSawsTvsLittle BitMy FriendsLet MeGood ThingsHungryFaded Author:Jack Black
“I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.” PeopleKindSchoolFatherSawsNew YorkBandMountainEarsJazzBoringFestivalsChordsGreat MusicCarolinaUneducatedNorth CarolinaTenorsMusic And DanceBanjosJazz BandAsheville Author:Pete Seeger