Pardis Sabeti Quotes

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

At 27 or so I thought, you know, I actually do really want to make money and have a proper life, and I don't want to be a loser. I know! I'll go to university and get a proper degree and maybe get a job in media... I went and did an English degree.

I can remember very clearly sitting in a little room in my apartment going, 'You know what, Jace? I think it's time to go back to university.'

As far as my education goes, I've always felt that was my hobby instead of acting.

After Class 10, I kept away from films.

My A-levels were physics, chemistry and maths. Science is fascinating but I wouldn't say I have used it since then. I decided to do economics.

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.

When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

Don't get me wrong: I'm overjoyed with my career to date. But perhaps I could have done more. Mostly, I just did whatever the directors told me to do.

My first semester of college, I'm going to sociology and English and psychology, and all I cared about was getting home and preparing for whatever audition I had.

Sometimes you have to take a thing when it comes and be glad. I first began to feel this way in '57, when I started to get myself together musically, although at the time I was working academically and technically.

I never went to college to make money.

I obviously pursued a career in the arts but always wondered if I had just been supported a little more in math, as opposed to it being 'a thing I had to learn,' how that would have changed things for me.