Quotes About Education

The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.

I needed the time to go to college and spend years with people who aren't in the business and become a person on my own in order to be the person that I am and the performer that I am. I wouldn't give that up to be in blockbusters or have more money.

My parents were dead set against my becoming a professional performer before I finished college. They felt the most important thing a girl can have in any career is education.

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

Kids listen to performers and we have a duty to give them certain critical information.

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all.

What we're looking for at my school is intellectuals. People who want to talk about the art and be knowledgeable about it. People who want to know the history. Not everybody needs to be performing.

We've taken some performing arts schools on the set of 'Breaking Bad.'

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.

I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I went to. I went to a school where I was there on a scholarship. So I think when you're on a scholarship, you always work a tad harder, or you want to work a tad harder than the next person.

My son is a musician who next year will be attending the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City, which his mother helped him get into by making him practice all the time.

When I grew up in Cincinnati in 1974, the Board of Education set up the performing school, similar to the New York performing arts school, and it was in walking distance from my school.

I lived at home while attending the University of Western Australia in Perth, while doing a gap year and - partly - while attending the Academy of Performing Arts on the other side of town.

Every city in America and in the world should be trying to grow its technology ecosystem, period. Especially if they care about their children and their grandchildren.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Some people think that culture is overhyped and peripheral. A season of opera is less important than the refurbishment of a school, they say. Leaving aside the poverty of imagination and aspiration implicit in such a sentiment, it also ignores hardheaded economic reality: Britain, and London in particular, makes big money from culture.

One of the perks of growing up, but also one of the biggest challenges, is making decisions about the future. Deciding what kind of job you want, whether you want to finish school, or whether you want to go to university are huge choices to make.

A permanent, growing fund for student aid will help all Oregonians afford needed education and training and build a path towards a stronger future.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.