I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.
I spent almost no time studying categories like geography and sports, even though they came up frequently on ‘Jeopardy,’ because I’m already strong in those subjects.
In the Cold War, a lot of Soviet actions could be explained as extensions of Czarist imperial ambitions, but that didn’t stop us from studying Marxism in theory and Communism in practice to better understand that adversary.
I’d been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn’t been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians at night – it’s hard to read Heidegger, but it’s especially hard if you’re half asleep.
I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends.
But it wasn’t just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.
I really believe that, as an actor, you should be constantly studying other people, and celebrity had the absolute opposite effect on me. It made me want to hide – to run away and hide.
I’m a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I’ve been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.
I don’t find Hollywood interesting, so I’m thinking of studying architecture instead.
I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.
I’ve really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter.
One of the best things about summer is that it’s the only time of year I don’t have crazy amounts of studying to do. I can relax with books I actually enjoy!
I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a lot of time after that at ‘Gossip Girl’ auditions, thinking, ‘Wow, I really wasted my money.’
I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, ‘I don’t wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.’
I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.
That’s just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.
When I was studying at Purdue, we learned our thermodynamics from an antique steam engine. When I went back in 1964, I found the laboratories packed with the most modern equipment for the study of thermodynamics, some of which had been built by the students themselves.
I’ve had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
Usually, girls weren’t encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.
I’m working hard not only during training, but also studying English to talk to the crowd and respond by myself during interviews.
I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city’s worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city’s Students Federation.
I was a rather quiet student, studying hard. Once, I was ranked fifth in a school exam out of everyone in the same grade.
I’d been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.
Many studies or theories by political scientists fit some subset of cases that a court decides, but literally no theory can account for all of them, particularly when it comes to studying a complex institution like the Supreme Court.
I got a call from the Lib Dems. They wanted to upgrade their databases and voter targeting. So, I combined working for them with studying for my degree.
I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I’d allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.
I told my mother I wanted to be an actress, and the next thing I know is that I’m studying in a very expensive film school.
I really work at a part to do it to the best of my ability. And I’m studying acting as well as keeping up with my singing and dancing lessons.
The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.
My wife and I – her more than me – are really strong Christians. Her whole life revolves around studying the Bible, Bible study, after-school Bible class she does for little kids on Wednesdays, teaches Sunday school.
I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history – sparked by books on human evolution – then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.
I was studying chemistry, and this is a physically hard job because you are in the laboratory, you work hard, and you come home in the late afternoon or in the evening and you always needed a break.
I always tell Asian actors, especially Filipinos wanting to break into Hollywood, to study, study and study and show their best. I haven’t stopped studying. There’s an abundance of roles, and all you have to do is prove to them that you are good for the role.
I’m studying art and photography, like film and digital – a mix of both.
I thoroughly enjoy this profession and everything that goes into it – from improving your own guys and also the game-planning and studying the opponents. I enjoy that, I really do.
When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.
My brother was a radio jockey while I was studying law. I have assisted a lawyer at the High Court. But I decided to give it up. I cleared auditions for radio jockey in the first go, and within a week, I was on air.
In the 1950s, my family first lived in West Los Angeles. Dad was studying architecture at USC and we didn’t have a lot of money. He’d buy crumbling fixer-uppers, make repairs and sell them for a small profit. Then we’d move on. My early childhood image of him is standing on a ladder and sanding the front door.
I’m able to make out the difference in my cricket since I started studying engineering. I can’t explain how or why, but once I’ve started to do engineering my cricket has gone up by leaps and bounds.
Polymer chemistry provides an excellent means of studying metathesis catalysts: miniscule catalyst loadings have the capacity to generate large amounts of polymeric material, the structure of which can provide a historical record of catalyst activity.
Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.
I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master’s degree in conducting.
I worked as an accountant in an auditor’s office, at a textile showroom, a telephone booth, and a fast-food joint while studying. My dad found it odd, but he never interfered in any of my decisions.
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim.
At college, I wasn’t passionate about anything I was studying.
I was studying in Pune when I was asked to audition for ‘Navya’ through a social networking site. Once I landed the show, there’s been no looking back.
I was just this kid from Colorado studying theater, and suddenly I was on a hit TV show.
Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the first and most important thing is to determine its detailed molecular structure.
I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race.
It’s soo freaking hard studying all night for your exams when you know there is no hope of clearing the dreaded Hindi paper.
When I walked into the kitchen for the first time, I knew I was going to do that for ever. I was studying my diploma in hospitality, and I just fell in love with it. It was like being a magician.
I was playing at sixth form – training in the morning and going to the gym in the afternoon. I was doing my studying alongside it; then I’d go to training from eight to 10 at night.
