Grad School Quotes

• In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

  Ted Nelson

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.

  Mark Udall

  Running, School, People

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• I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on "Community."

  Gillian Jacobs

  School, Community, Gone

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Working With First-Time Filmmakers, Her New Short and the Relationship Between 'Community' and Its Online Following". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. August 14, 2013.

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• I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

  Jami Attenberg

  Drinking, Book, Writing

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• I spent many years in grad school in English, so I've read a lot in a variety of genres. But adventure fantasy is my bread and butter as a reader, and probably always will be. So it's only natural that I came to that genre as a writer.

  Saladin Ahmed

  School, Adventure, Years

  Source: fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com

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• Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

  Richard Powers

  School, Computer, Grad

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• I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion.

  Brice Marden

  Jobs, New York, Teaching

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• I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

  Gene Weingarten

  School, Careers, Decision

  "Tuesdays with Moron: Chatological Humor update". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 10, 2015.

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• In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

  W. Richard Stevens

  Jobs, School, Flying

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• My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again.

  Ana Ortiz

  Mother, School, Supportive

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• I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

  Hank Azaria

  School, College, People

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.

  David Burge

  School, Eagles, Political

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• If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business.

  Michael Ellsberg

  Jobs, Attitude, Educational

  "Will Dropouts Save America?". www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2011.

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• The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Stress, School, Mad

  Jonathan Kellerman (2003). “Devil's Waltz: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.262, Ballantine Books

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• I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.

  Carolyn Hax

  Couple, Hate, School

  "Carolyn Hax Live: Use the china". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

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• As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

  Thomas Haden Church

  School, Voice, Actors

  Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 15, 2006.

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• I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, Whats the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting? It didnt make sense to me anymore. Its not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

  Taylor Schilling

  Teacher, School, Differences

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• There are the relationships you make. All of the friends I made in grad school are the closest ones that I have.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  School, Grad, Made

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.

  Michael J. Massimino

  School, Space, Working Together

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• Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.

  Rich Sommer

  New York, School, Night

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• I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

  Dean Karnazes

  Jobs, School, College

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• I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it in the most straightforward way possible. Later, in college and grad school, I came to realize that language is a technology like any other, and that it's always evolving - clarity of expression is always evolving.

  Elif Batuman

  Communication, Writing, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I always wanted to live in L.A. The other thing that always inspired me was movies; that's why I'm here. I always wanted to be a part of the movie business and make movies. That's why I went to AFI grad school for filmmaking.

  Jeff Vespa

  School, Inspired, Grad

  "Discovering Jeff Vespa". Interview with Jena Malone, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 14, 2014.

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• I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still lingering in my head. I realized there were some pieces where I felt that I had to respond to the criticism.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, School, Exercise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.

  N.D. Wilson

  Dream, Honesty, Reading

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