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The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just l... OLIVIA COLMAN
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I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13. RICHARD DAWKINS
My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I l... MICHAEL KEATON
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YVETTE GIROUARD I never looked at it that way. I didn't play high school football, so I had a late start. I was youn...
BEN DAVIDSON I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at sch...
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EDWARD CAREY My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I w...
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GRACE ABBOTT
I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school... SYDNEY BRENNER It was a real tight game in the first and second period. In the third, I think we came out strong an...
HENRIK ZETTERBERG It was great to be the first representative of the school at the national competition.
JENNIFER LURK I was having problems because [Augusta Chairman ] Cliff Roberts and [and former U. S. President ] Ge...
CARL JACKSON I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH It was a race to see who was going to get that first championship. It was a relief to get the first ...
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AHMET ZAPPA I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, ...
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IAN RANKIN
As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool. KEVIN MITNICK
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CHRISTOPHER BROWN
When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing a... NILE RODGERS My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but ...
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MARTIN BRIERE
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicis... BRIAN GREENE This [was] only my second game, so obviously I'm still a little nervous playing in front of the home...
AARON LUNA When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first gra...
DICKEY BETTS
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, tau... ROSA PARKS First thing I heard this morning was, 'Oh, my baby. My baby, she's under the school bus.
BRIAN MORRIS
My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it,... JEREMY LIN South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, a...
JANN KLOSE The Manteo Middle School swim team has to practice at the Elizabethan Inn swimming pool at a pretty ...
DEBBIE GIBBS
The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, a... PETER FALK I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano te...
AUDRA MCDONALD
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue. STEVE IRWIN I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the fi...
DARREN STAR It was like a rock star came to school.
MARK STINSON
I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman... RUTH BADER GINSBURG Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we nor...
DOMINIQUE DAWES
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. MARK TWAIN
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards MARK TWAIN At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of ...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD This is my first year being the head coach, and I've been here three years, but that is the first on...
BEN QUILES My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.
JANE LYNCH I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was worki...
ALBERT GUBAY
I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every sum... CHRISTOPHER REEVE The school district owned the building until it passed into our hands in the late 1990s. This buildi...
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Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, ... 
Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that. 
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To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule. 
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Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee,
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