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Quotes About Graduate

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'
~ Francis Ford Coppola
The critics mostly review the budgets when they go to see a big-budget movie. They are out to get a big-budget movie. On the other hand, if they review a picture that is done as a graduate thesis by some college film student for $25,000, it is almost sure to be admired and respected.
~ Yvette Mimieux
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.
~ Carrie Coon
In the field of astronomy in the mid-'60s, quasars were very sexy objects - gigantic, star-like masses about which little was known. I was a graduate research student at Cambridge working towards my Ph.D. and chose quasars as the subject for my thesis. Part of my project involved surveying the sky for them using a radio telescope.
~ Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'd gone to Oxford to do graduate studies in the history of the slave trade, but I came across Georgiana's letters, gave up that thesis, and wrote one on her instead. When I learned that Georgiana's great-nephews supported opposite sides in the American Civil War, I knew this would be the perfect sequel.
~ Amanda Foreman
I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience.
~ David Lee
My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.
~ Kenneth G. Wilson
Sheila Finch was born and raised in London, England. She did graduate work in medieval literature and linguistics at Indiana University. Dragged to California in 1962 by her (then) husband, she fell in love with the state and has stayed there ever since. She taught fiction writing and the literature of science fiction for thirty years at El Camino College, in Torrance, California. She lives in Long Beach with a cat and a retired racing greyhound.
~ Sheila Finch
I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
~ Arthur Golden
We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.
~ Charles Vest
I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.
~ Douglas Adams
I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I was the only BBC graduate trainee in 1961 interested in arts broadcasting. I knew I wanted to write, and I had to make a living.
~ Melvyn Bragg
I have something stupid, like, 12 credits, to graduate.
~ Kelela
I only applied for 'Countdown' as a bit of a laugh while applying for lots of other graduate jobs. I've had some amazing opportunities, and I've loved every minute.
~ Rachel Riley
I think that for me, as a UNC graduate, I value my education - I think everyone who's gone to that university values education.
~ Kenny Smith
I like 'The Graduate.' That's one of my favorites.
~ Kyle Gass
You probably know me best as a 4 year player, national champion, and graduate of Duke University, but I'm also a gamer, student, Christian, and a long time redditor.
~ Grayson Allen
I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.
~ Powers Boothe
I went to graduate school for directing at AFI in L.A., and I wanted to be a director.
~ Zal Batmanglij
I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.
~ Matthew Desmond
I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.
~ Nicole Holofcener
I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
~ John Forbes Nash, Jr.