Olly Alexander Quotes

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.

I was terrible at school.

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

I just didn't like going to school.

Some people just seem like they are up to no good. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict, and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

Academically I was never that great and I was not really into school. I don't know, I just really had a problem focusing but singing always came naturally.

During college, I found academics repulsive and forced myself to study subjects I didn't want to pursue.

When I was in college, I didn't like physics a lot, and I really wasn't very good at physics. And there were a lot of people around me who were really good at physics: I mean, scary good at physics. And they weren't much help to me, because I would say, 'How do you do this?' They'd say, 'Well, the answer's obvious.'

I took organic chemistry, and I got my first-ever F. I ended up going to summer school, and the whole time, I'm thinking, 'I am not good at sciences.'

Schoolwork was always suffering! I hated school!

I started school in the 4th grade and it was a real drag.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

Pretty much hated school. I never really found my footing. I just didn't like lessons.

Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.

In school, I always had to work harder than others.

I actually was a good student, but I never applied myself 'cause I was always like, 'I don't love doing this.' I wasn't passionate about school. I always got a B just to pass. But what's crazy is I got a 29 on my ACT test without even studying. So I was always, like, just smart - but never really cared.

I have something stupid, like, 12 credits, to graduate.

I was giving everything I had to classes, and I was getting a 2.6. I knew that wasn't going to get me into med school.

I'm not studious at all. I'm really far from that. I have been better at everything else. I find school terribly tiresome and boring.

I hated every minute of my schooldays.

At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.

My mom just wanted me to do anything that was academic, whether it was become a doctor or be a lawyer. Engineering suited her... then I dropped out. It was not what I wanted to do at all; it just felt so unnatural, and I couldn't put my finger on why. I just knew it wasn't for me.