“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.” ThinkingArtSchoolIndividualPaintingFinishedPainterRealisingLayersOften IsArt 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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingWellsSchoolLaughingElementsHarderCuteRelyShyHanging OutMaking 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.” ThinkingFirstsKindArtI CanSchoolFilmCareersYeahStemStumbling 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.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayWantKindDoeHomeKidsSchoolUsedNamesNiceShopsBad ThingsBe KindKnow 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.” ThinkingCountrySchoolCrisis 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.” ThinkingWantNeedsSchoolTeacherSubjectsConsumersShopsGoods 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.” IfsThinkingNeedsGivingShouldSchoolFunnySpecialStudentsSeekingEducationalCreditExtrasThoughtfulBlogsBloggingBloggersSpecial 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.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMindLittlesTwoHelpingKidsSchoolThreeHoursTeachingChairsVillageLittle KidAthensNiger 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.” PeopleThinkingSchoolMiddleInternetComputerMessagesHigh SchoolBoardsMiddle 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.” ThinkingWayKidsSchoolFilmSongInterestingRecordsProduceExcitingInteresting ThingsEditsShort 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.” ThinkingPlayKidsSchoolLostActingMagicBandHigh SchoolGuitarPuzzlesJuniorsJunior HighHigh 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.” ThinkingSchoolWrittenPagesHigh SchoolScriptsDialogueThirtyLooking BackStaplesWannabes Author:Lorene Scafaria
“Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.” PeopleThinkingSchoolDespiteFollowersPanicSlacker 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.” ThinkingKidsSchoolCertainRichMediaElitesGroundingRich 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.” ThinkingWantSchoolWatchesHigh SchoolEconomist Author:Thomas J. Sargent
“There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.” ThinkingSchoolDramaHype 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.” ThinkingEndsSchoolChanceTeacherBloodMomHusbandUltimateSecond ChanceSleevesGeorgiaSchool TeachersGifts 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.” PeopleThinkingMindSeemsAbleSchoolActorsInterestingStudyPsychologyBecomingDoctorsMedicineBecoming 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.” IfsThinkingEndsSchoolPoliticalBornPracticePoliticianPracticalsThe End Of The DayPolitical 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.” ThinkingGivingSchoolCultureGuiltyEmsBags 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.” ThinkingPlaySchoolSingingHigh 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.” ThinkingYearsSchoolVoiceTheaterMusicalMusical TheaterForteLegit 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.” ThinkingWorldShouldArtImportantCountryKidsSchoolFormUsedLostMusic IsJazzUsed To BeExposedLost ArtMusic In Schools Author:Chrisette Michele