I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Bone is one of the hardest structures of the animal body; it possesses also a certain degree of toughness and elasticity.
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.
My first degree was in structural engineering, which is super-boring.
My master's degree was in English literature.
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and everything related to it has become one of the most trivial activities of our epoch.
If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.
Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.
I get as much fan mail today and sign as many autographs as I did when I played. It's mind-boggling to a certain degree.
The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.
As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.