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“When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.”

Thinking Art School Individual Painting Finished Painter Realising Layers Often Is Art School

Author:Chris Ofili

“The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh. I think there's an element of that in there.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Wells School Laughing Elements Harder Cute Rely Shy Hanging Out Making People Laugh

Author:Kaitlin Olson

“Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Art I Can School Film Careers Yeah Stem Stumbling

Author:Karen O

“It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Kind Doe Home Kids School Used Names Nice Shops Bad Things Be Kind Know Me

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.”

Thinking Country School Crisis

Author:Daniel Pennac

“The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.”

Thinking Want Needs School Teacher Subjects Consumers Shops Goods

Author:Daniel Pennac

“If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Giving Should School Funny Special Students Seeking Educational Credit Extras Thoughtful Blogs Blogging Bloggers Special Times

Author:Cory Doctorow

“I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.”

People Thinking Needs Mind Littles Two Helping Kids School Three Hours Teaching Chairs Village Little Kid Athens Niger

Author:Christine Lagarde

“I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.”

People Thinking School Middle Internet Computer Messages High School Boards Middle School

Author:Sara Paxton

“A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.”

Thinking Way Kids School Film Song Interesting Records Produce Exciting Interesting Things Edits Short Films

Author:Michael Pitt

“As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.”

Thinking Play Kids School Lost Acting Magic Band High School Guitar Puzzles Juniors Junior High High School Junior

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.”

Thinking School Written Pages High School Scripts Dialogue Thirty Looking Back Staples Wannabes

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.”

People Thinking School Despite Followers Panic Slacker

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.”

Thinking Kids School Certain Rich Media Elites Grounding Rich Kids

Author:Shepard Smith

“I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.”

Thinking Want School Watches High School Economist

Author:Thomas J. Sargent

“There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.”

Thinking School Drama Hype

Author:Eleanor Tomlinson

“I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.”

Thinking Ends School Chance Teacher Blood Mom Husband Ultimate Second Chance Sleeves Georgia School Teachers Gifts Of Life

Author:Niki Taylor

“For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.”

People Thinking Mind Seems Able School Actors Interesting Study Psychology Becoming Doctors Medicine Becoming A Doctor

Author:Rumer Willis

“If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.”

Ifs Thinking Ends School Political Born Practice Politician Practicals The End Of The Day Political Science

Author:George Weah

“I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.”

Thinking Giving School Culture Guilty Ems Bags

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.”

Thinking Play School Singing High School

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to school for musical theater for a year and dropped out. Legit musicals are not quite my forte.”

Thinking Years School Voice Theater Musical Musical Theater Forte Legit

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.”

Thinking World Should Art Important Country Kids School Form Used Lost Music Is Jazz Used To Be Exposed Lost Art Music In Schools

Author:Chrisette Michele

“Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.”

Thinking World Should Self Helping School Self Esteem Students Building Activity Lows Independent Self Confidence Esteem Obedience Low Self Esteem School Buildings

Author:Alison Lurie

“I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not.”

People Thinking School Stage Blow Nasty Misconception Always Happy

Author:Amy Winehouse

“I'm going to continue working as a model. I want to do it all! And I think it's possible to keep working while you go to school. Christy Turlington did it. Natalie Portman did it. Emma Watson just did it! And those are just women in the public eye, but plenty of others do it, too. You know, women around the world are great at multitasking. We do it well.”

Thinking Knows World Want Wells Eye School Models Around The World Plenty Watson Emma Public Eye Multitasking

Author:Karlie Kloss

“Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.”

Thinking Way Heart Important School Turns Speak Language Class Cutting Music Is Crosses Vices Observation Granted Borders Vice Versa

Author:Dan Rather

“I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Art Real School Half Draws Prepared Real Life Schooling Art School

Author:Dave Gibbons

“So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, 'What if I was Hannah Montana?' . . . And little do they know that that's why I look so insane . . . I'm torturing myself with thoughts of, 'How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?'”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Littles School Night Guy Stars Students High School Pops Insane What If Montana Pop Stars High School Students Hannah Montana Thinking What If

Author:Eli Roth

“I think that there's a particular type of person who goes into children's theater, and then goes into theater in high school. There was something about the guys I knew in theater, we were all very vulnerable. You could tell that at some point we were made fun of.”

Thinking Children Persons Made School Guy Fun Particular Type High School Theater Vulnerable

Author:Craig Brewer

“I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.”

Ifs Thinking School Ability Player Football College High School Nfl Football Player College Football Nfl Players Good College Good High School

Author:Robert Griffin III

“Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.”

Thinking Men School Break Habit Approach Planning Grammar Good Education Grammar School

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.”

Thinking Believe Art Kids School Young Bits Education Meaningless Crap Art School

Author:Leonard Baskin

“I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.”

Thinking School Speak Seeing Students Directors Female Gender

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M”

Thinking School Causes Poor Brain Performances Stupidity Brown Charlie Dominance Peanuts Poor Performance

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.”

People Thinking School Vote Election Neighbor Closest Sacraments Civics Election Day

Author:Judy Woodruff

“My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.”

Thinking Years Made School Jobs Week Died Cooking Grandmother My Grandmother School Lunch Granddaddy

Author:Willie Nelson

“For me, I was in school and I pushed myself to be a good student, just because that's the type of person I was, but I never had a connection to any of it. I don't think my brain functioned in a way that was at its height, when I was in school. I needed something like art to really value the way my mind works. I wasn't reaching my full potential by sitting in a classroom and reading from a book. My mind didn't work that way.”

Thinking Way Mind Persons Art Book School Values Reading Brain Students Type Needed Sitting Connections Height Reaching Classroom Full Potential Good Students

Author:Misty Copeland

“There's got to be a point where we fix the system so that legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration and show respect for people, a kid who might have been here for 10 years, that might be a valedictorian of their high school to say, no, no, no you're not allowed to go to college. I just think there's a point past which we are over the line.”

“I'm not even sure I like surgery, but I like what it does, I like the effects. I like to be able to give people longevity and quality of life, and I also think it's good for people to use the special gifts and talents that they have. And when I was in medical school, when I began to analyze the gifts and talents that I had, I realized that surgery would probably be a very good fit for me.”

“If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.”

Ifs Thinking Looks School Drawing

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.”

Thinking School Artist New York Patriotism Future Time

Book:Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926

Source: Mary Cassatt, 1844-1926

“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.”

Thinking Years Made Hard School Law Choices Three Parent Decision Half Careers Conscious Decided University Occupation Harsh Half A Year School Days Careers Choices

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.”

People Thinking Years Firsts School Three Cases Teacher Stupid Lows Expectations Tests Three Years You Re Stupid Low Expectations I Was Stupid

Author:Robert Sternberg

“Each situation has to be handled as a unique situation. But I think if you want your guys to stay in school and graduate and one of these opportunities comes along, you have to be willing to work with him, you have to give a little.”

Ifs Thinking Want Giving Littles School Guy Opportunity Situation Willing Unique Graduates Uniqueness Stay In School

Author:Charlie Weis

“We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Wells Bigs School Fighting Loses Students Plant Complexes Studios Intimacy

Author:Walt Disney

“I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about twenty-five I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.”

Thinking Littles School Choices Bits Acting Class Succeed Little Bit High School My Family Intelligent

Author:James Gandolfini

“Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.”

Thinking Knows Art Stills Enough School Hell Truth Is Engaged Questioning

Author:David Salle

“One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.”

“I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.”

Thinking School Felt Common Misfits

Author:Clare Balding

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