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I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

Mathematics School Gift Think Better

I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.

Life School Monday Friday My Life

The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year.

Time School Theatre Year Drama Mum

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

School High School American Important

The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies.

School Movies More Real Peers Being

It wasn't until 9th grade that I got into music. This guy in school heard me singing around the hallway to girls and stuff. The girls liked it. One day, he was like, 'Come to my crib. I got a studio. Come and record a hook for me.' I recorded the hook on the 'Lovers & Friends' beat - Usher.

Music Day School Me Singing Friends

In the 1980s, there was no category to stick me in. 'He sounds too smart' is what I was hearing. I realized that I had to become a member of the school of what I call 'ugly acting.' Which meant I wanted to do what Dustin Hoffman did very successfully: to play character roles, but lead character roles.

Character School Smart Ugly Me Play

When I was 15, I went on a cricket tour of Zimbabwe with my school. My defining memory of it was stroking a semi-tame lioness at a game reserve. I grew up on a farm, so I felt I had an affinity with animals, and when it put a paw out, I thought I'd connected with it. But its claws came out and nicked my leg. Then I did the most stupid thing: I ran.

School Memory Stupid Cricket Game

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

Community School College Top Five

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school.

Age Medical School Parents Me Go

I've always felt like an outsider, whether in school or when I'm working or within the industry or just in society at large.

School Society Always Within Working

My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that.

Work Father Music School Child

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

James Rainwater

Mathematics School High School High

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.

School Go Become Surgeon Going

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

Art School Mechanic Doing Way Stuff

My parents wanted me to go to law school!

School Parents Me Law Go Law School

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

School High School Animation High

We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.

Children School Thinking Pilot Days

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

Roger Bannister

Work Hard Work Achievement School Me

When I went to drama school, I thought that everybody would think I was only there because my dad was on TV.

School Think Thought Drama Because

At school, I had to work really hard to get a D in maths. And I wasn't slacking off; I actually did work quite hard.

Work School Hard Get Off Quite

I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.

Live School Guitar Holidays Bag

I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in art school, and many of the techniques I learned on canvas, I applied to makeup.

Art School Start Makeup Canvas Many

I love music, and I love drumlines. I like school bands a lot. There's nothing wrong with cheerleading, but I'd rather be a band geek. It's a little more interesting.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Love Music School Interesting Wrong

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