Barun Sobti Quotes

I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.

College is something I've always said I wanted to do, but you're going there to get a piece of paper that says you can get a job, but if I'm already working steadily and doing good work, it makes you question your priorities. Right now, I'm in my own film college: filming a TV show.

I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.

I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school - then again, I was like, 'Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.'

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.

You know when I was a high school student I wasn't a very good student. Upon graduation we were asked if we would become a full working adult or go to university. I decided to go to film school and still to this day I try to avoid being a full working adult.

I'm not gonna go to university. I don't want to do anything.

I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor.

I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.

While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

Stay in college, kids. Otherwise, you may become an umpire.

Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.