Eleanor Catton Quotes

I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.

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 went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.

My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.

When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business.

I did loads of jobs all the way through college, just for a bit of money in my pocket. There were some tough jobs, but I was lucky enough I enjoyed doing them. It was okay.

My first job was working Saturdays in Sports Soccer in Newcastle. I only used to work three or four hours a week, so it wasn't a huge amount, but I do remember spending the first pay I got on a new pair of trainers.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for, like, two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

I miss college.

I went to nine different universities and never paid a nickle of my own money. My wife got many scholarships. We are children of the United States.

I went to high school in Minnesota.

I think everybody should go to high school. It's horrible, and it unites you with other people.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

I went to college at University of Tennessee.

My first job ever, I was 14 years old - I was working at this mom-and-pop video store, and they basically paid me by allowing me to take home as many movies as I wanted, and that's how I started watching all the classics and really getting into it.

In the past, I played in bands, worked at coffee shops, babysat, and worked as a production assistant.

I went to the University of Miami.

I studied at university for a term and a day, and then I dropped out.

Most people, when they hire you, they want some experience on the resume.

One thing my fans might not know about me is that when I graduated from college I went to work for a plumbing company, and so I was pretty much a full time plumber.