William Joyce Quotes

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I care about doing well in New Zealand?'

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives.

In the course of my life, for more than half a century, June 1989 was the major turning point. Up to that point, I was a member of the first class to enter university when college entrance examinations were reinstated following the Cultural Revolution (Class of '77).

The great thing about 'American High' is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment.

I could never understand why other kids wanted to truant - my education here gave me everything. It's the place where I really got to flourish.

Education was never my higher calling.

I didn't even walk for graduation - I did graduate, though. I got this homeschool deal. I didn't have to go to school because I was depressed, and my mom wrote all these essays for me. I didn't write one of them. She literally got me my diploma.

I think 2020 can still be my time.

Charter schools in particular have proven a lifeline for millions of children stuck in chronically failing schools.

I really want to go to a club that really wants me. Southampton gave me that opportunity, and it paid off, I think.

'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.

I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.

When you come back on top after you've fallen, it's a better story.

Growing up as a kid, in elementary and middle school, I was always getting in trouble. Always getting suspended. I got suspended for 90 days for fighting beginning my freshman year, so I missed Homecoming, and that's when I turned the page. I went on honor roll and had good grades after that. It was the changing point.

That's why I kept going with my school - I wasn't talented. That's what's the difficulty - you want to define key talents when they are 12, 13 or 14? When I was that age I was nowhere near. People had given up on me.

Some friends of mine had parents who made school a treat, a gift - not something to be endured.

I've always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we're young, we don't understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it's a blessing to have that support at home.

My daughter's education is my priority.

I want my son Yash to do better work than me.

The past four years at St. John's University have been one of the most thrilling and challenging points of my career.

It was a sort of weird, troubled road into acting because I had been a bit naughty in school until I did my Highers, and then I was like, 'Oh, I think I'm going to apply myself and surprise everyone.'

I am proud of whatever my parents have achieved. In fact, it drives me to excel in life, to perform even better and explore myself.

Education is worth its weight in gold. Make no mistake about it.