School Quotes - Page 35

• I was raised with "Laurel and Hardy" and "I Love Lucy" and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

  Steve Martin

  Laughing, Bedroom, Skit

  "Steve Martin Memoir Recalls A Past Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2009.

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• I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.

  Susana Martinez

  Children, Kids, Law

  RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Mom, Taught, Immersion

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• My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

  Harry Mathews

  Football, Dream, Littles

  Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.

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• Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

  Marlee Matlin

  Children, Support, Trying

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• I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

  Dave Matthews

  College, High School

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• Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Growing Up, Hockey

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• You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'

  Donny Osmond

  Football, Play, Guy

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• When I was 12 years old, I read Nancy Drew mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.

  Joyce Maynard

  Girl, Horse, Book

  "Coming of Age with Judy Blume". www.nytimes.com. December 3, 1978.

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• I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Views, People, Majority

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• NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Teacher, Space Flight, Nasa

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• I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Eyebrows, Space, People

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• I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.

  James McAvoy

  Drama, Environment, Hard

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• I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.

  James McAvoy

  Drama, Home, Towns

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• I can't even remember not wanting to go to film school.

  Danny McBride

  Remember, Film, I Can

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.

  Danny McBride

  Hero, Writing, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.

  Danny McBride

  Gone, Slugs, Film

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts - he was kind of an artisan. In a lot of our films, he's constantly trying to give me weird looks.

  Danny McBride

  Giving, Trying, Looks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.

  Martina McBride

  People, President, Connections

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• My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

  Paul McCartney

  Art, Use, Students

  Interview with Robert Siegel, www.avclub.com. June 27, 2007.

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• A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Teacher, College, Levels

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 20, 2006.

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• I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

  George McGovern

  Children, Long, World

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• When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

  George McGovern

  Girl, Country, Boys

  "Ex-Senator seeks more food aid funding" by Dirk Lammers, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 25, 2007.

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• Well, let me tell you, if you're 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you're not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That's a media-driven ideal that you're never going to healthfully obtain.

  Phil McGraw

  Children, Media, Three

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.

  Ewan McGregor

  Play, Acting, School Plays

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2002.

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