Traditional Path Quotes

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.

Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.

There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.

I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer.

I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.

I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

I don't like the idea of stepping-stones in art forms: that you do your time at a regional theatre, and then you work in London and go to the West End, and then you do films. I've never felt like following that trajectory.

Don’t choose a straight path. And don’t reject a winding one. Choose the path your ancestors have trod.

My dream was to grow up and get a job at IBM, like my dad. That seemed like a logical dream.

A traditional college education works for many students, but for others, this path isn't the best choice.

For whole swaths of people, that map of, 'Come along this way, come to college, do this and that,' isn't offered.

I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.