Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.
Camryn Manheim
Related Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or... CAMRYN MANHEIM Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't rea... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I... ALEKSA PALLADINO I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I... BARBARA LYNN Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family a... CALLUM KEITH RENNIE The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in m... HUSTON SMITH I got busy with a family, actually started in college, and then the pros and I kept meaning to get m... CHRIS DISHMAN I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always see... BOB COLACELLO Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer. LAURA FRASER In my own life, I find myself doing some task - driving or playing golf - and having a conversation ... JAMES REMAR I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you n... CAMRYN MANHEIM Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this.” “Oh?” I turn at the wais... J.A. REDMERSKI I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Z... ROBIN WILLIAMS I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my paren... BONNIE TYLER I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain o... MARILYNNE ROBINSON I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am... CATERINA MURINO I think my husband and dad were both very happy that I had a baby boy, to get some testosterone in t... JADE JAGGER My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o... PATRICIA POLACCO I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my p... EMILY BROWNING The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Becaus... DORIS LESSING I think for both of us it's important to reveal something of ourselves and our own commitment to it.... PROF. MICHAEL LEVENSON I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence... DANIEL DAY-LEWIS When I was growing up, my parents said to go to college and get a good job and then go try this. I d... JAMES NIGGEMEYER He's gawking at me when I open the door. "Damn girl," he says, looking me over, "what the hell... J.A. REDMERSKI The program is for both parents and children because we know that if we want to help a child get fit... EMILY BAKER My mother is going to get earrings of my head. Some will be dipped in silver, some will be dipped in... D. J. COTRONA Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby. ANNE WOJCICKI I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my par... NICOLE RICHIE In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life ... TEA OBREHT But I don't know how I'll ever get a college degree and rise in the world with no high school diplom... FRANK MCCOURT My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p... MAYA ANGELOU Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought ... MELANIE BROWN I would like to go back and get the four-year degree. As I move into management, I feel that not hav... DAN THOMPSON [His future plans?] I would like to go back and get the four-year degree, ... As I move into managem... DAN THOMPSON I had my plan. I had my family. We would travel the world and shoot movies and be fabulous. ANGIE HARMON I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So ... JOHN GRISHAM And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't. HARRY MATHEWS I say that I'm not into you like that, Camryn, because..," he pauses, searching my face, looking at ... J.A. REDMERSKI I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it... WALTER PAYTON I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashi... DAKOTA FANNING For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because ... GUSTAVO DUDAMEL Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now.... CHANCE THE RAPPER When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And... DR. JESS LAIR I think everyone has to acknowledge that there are vulnerabilities to the effects of some of these c... KURT KALB So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of ... DUSTIN HOFFMAN As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line. JAMES C. DOBSON My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race. ALAN WILSON Both my parents are educators. My siblings and I always had to get good grades no matter what outsid... YAYA DACOSTA In college, I had a crush on one of my professors. I used to bat my eyelashes and coo at him. He did... NAVI RAWAT My plant is probably dead." Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?" I smile. ... J.A. REDMERSKI The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and ... PAUL DE MAN I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sym... DAVID EDDINGS I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - ... JILL SOLOWAY i didnt understand why my past realationship were so bad now i know so when we meet we had something... WOW I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to... JAMES STEWART I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me ... ADAM HICKS I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won&... BEN ROETHLISBERGER I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the res... JACK MCBRAYER I was involved with MySpace and Facebook and everything at a very young age because it's so casu... LIANA LIBERATO Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of t... TATYANA ALI Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. GEORGE GIVOT My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recal... RORY FREEDMAN My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs ... AJAY NAIDU I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I ... BILLIE LOURD The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love ... DAN GILROY If me and my parents weren't given loans, then I wouldn't have been able to come here. I would've ha... COLLEEN JOHNSON My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was somethin... ALEXANDER LUDWIG Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?' I still think that's the bravest thing I'... CHINA MIéVILLE My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with ot... A. S. BYATT I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong wi... STEPHEN CHBOSKY My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was appl... XAVIER BECERRA I hope to work a few years to get some experience and then I will probably get my bachelor's degree. ASHLEY REED I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but ... GENE WILDER I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character... ALAN BALL It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.... RACHAEL HARRIS I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to... JAMES STEWART I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, ab... RACHAEL MACFARLANE My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist... JON SECADA My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone... JANE GOODALL In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say... BO BURNHAM It is a bit of both, ... It is a blessing because I know that I am capable but it is a curse because... JOHN AVERY How do I pray? Not in any organized form, really; I go to temples sometimes with my family, but they... SHASHI THAROOR Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now ~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, ... BRIE LARSON It's the politics of the Liberal party that they seem to get away with this kind of thing in Ontario... RALPH KLEIN Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime... STEPHEN FRY Growing up in a very big family, working together and playing together, that is something that has b... MARGHERITA MISSONI I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices. KANGANA RANAUT However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to... J. K. ROWLING Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love fo... MING-NA WEN I'm actually not making fun of my real parents. I've taken stereotypical traits of my real p... LILLY SINGH It's good because the parents and visitors get to come and talk about what they do to the students, ... FRED ROSE I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family. MEEK MILL It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Pe... ELIZABETH GILBERT Getting up quite late in the morning, going and trying to clean my bikes - I have quite a few of the... MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because ... TATYANA ALI I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it h... XAVIER SAMUEL I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went t... CARL HAGELIN I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airli... T. J. PERKINS
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