Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia Quotes

When I got divorced, it was another culture shock. It was going from this world I had been into since the age of 16 to literally standing on the streets of New York in kind of shock.

I was twelve when I went to boarding school in Edinburgh.

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew.

Moving to a new school, or up a year at an existing school - with new friends, teachers, subjects, rules and expectation - is a big deal for young people. All of us who are adults remember how daunting it was, but we sometimes take it for granted that children will be able to cope with the change.

I think that a lot of people I'm close to feel that they went through a period of real difficulty when they moved away from home... You do have to reinvent yourself, and people have to struggle with that. It was really a struggle for me.

I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on sports.

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

When you spend seven years with a group of people and suddenly you're not together, it's very jarring.

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate.

When I first moved to London, I felt very homesick and yearned after the countryside a lot. Because London's hard. It's a big place, and it's lonely. It takes a while to get into it. But once I got into the flow of it and started to grow up, I realised that my home is wherever I am.

Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.

When people are like, 'College! Oh my God! Ultimate freedom!' I didn't feel that way. My roommates were loving hitting the town, but I wasn't as psyched about going to the frats.

I've been through a lot of changes.

It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.

I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive.

Any time you have change, it costs somebody. Somebody is a loser.

But I think a lot of guys need to branch off from home for a while so you can figure everything out, learn how to take care of off-the-court issues so when you do go back home if you decide to, the transition would be easier.

When you come to a new club, it takes time to adapt.

It was really tough being 14 and moving away from home.