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"We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work."

Character School Essence
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Irving Stone Author
School

"If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries."

Thinking School Important
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Jacques Derrida Philosopher, Linguist
School

"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown."

School Sick Paris
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Gene Wilder Actor, comedian
School

"There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before we met. It was an old house, old colonial house, 1734. And there were just a few friends at the funeral, a nonsectarian cemetery. And an old friend of hers from junior high school or high school was the rabbi in town, and he performed the service."

School House Funeral
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LeBron James Professional Basketball Player
School

"Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school."

Home School Ohio
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Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer
School

"I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me."

Mean School Funny
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Jaden Smith Actor
School

"Here’s the deal: School is not authentic because it ends. It’s not true, it’s not real. Our learning will never end."

Real School Ends
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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
School

"My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths."

Writing School Ties
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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
School

"I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid."

Kids School Smart
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Helen Keller Author, Activist
School

"I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation."

Country War School
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Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model
School

"I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me."

School Girl Boys
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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
School

"I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave."

Jobs School Latin
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George Will Political Commentator, Author
School

"I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything."

Thinking School Cutting
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
School

"There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature."

Art School Should Have
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
School

"The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral patterns and so on. If you don't accept them, you are called maybe a behavioral problem, or something, and you're weeded out. Something like that goes on all the way through universities and graduate schools. There is an implicit system of filtering, which has the, it creates a strong tendency to impose conformism. Now, it's a tendency, so you do have exceptions, and sometimes the exceptions are quite striking."

Children School Strong
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