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Related I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared mor... KRISTEN WIIG I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote f... EVA VERTES I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good... RANDY HARRISON He was sitting there doing curls with a bar and he's got a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. In th... BRIAN MOEHLER The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, tak... ELI BROAD But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER I got to take a lot of pictures of them hanging out and being themselves. REBECCA JAFFE My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homewo... LORDE I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of sm... 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FIONA APPLE I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could s... VIRGINIA MADSEN I do want to have kids. Every time I see a little kid, I get excited, and I want to spend time with ... DAVID ALPAY Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I... NEAL SHUSTERMAN I walked a while stomping my foot and taking him for a ride. I want to continue doing this as long a... TOBY BRITT I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, ... DANIEL BRUHL I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operetta... J. K. SIMMONS I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the d... BEN SCHOTT I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working wi... JOSEPH MAWLE I need to find the right guy and the right family. The day I find something worth my while, I will g... DIVYANKA TRIPATHI I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to app... GERTRUDE B. ELION I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Doing something about infrastructure is something I would like to see while I'm governor. BILL HASLAM I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while i... MARY BETH WHITEHEAD When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Ande... IAN GOMEZ I was a scam artist in high school for a while. SCOTT CAAN I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily w... JAMI ATTENBERG I began having problems with Warner Bros. They were letting other people do films, and I wasn't doin... CLINT WALKER While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction. LAURENCE YEP Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing w... NANCY KERRIGAN I realised I had to work in something creative, but with a business and global element. And that I h... IMRAN AMED With the club open nice and early, parents can still work and keep to their schedules and know their... MAURA WEBSTER Suddenly, this strange person is taking off with my kids. I don't care about the car -- the kids, th... TOM ARDIZONE I get out there once in a while. I don't want to be the old guy who sits in the corner, and everyone... ERNIE HARWELL When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business fo... BLAIR UNDERWOOD In private, I may wear a bikini, but at the public beach with my kids, I would change bathing suits ... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Let me tell you about gays in the military. 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KRISTEN NEWLIN I had no interest in hanging out with other celebrity kids, and I was certainly no cheerleader, so I... LISA MARIE PRESLEY I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I wa... AFROJACK Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician ... ALVIN LEE I think it's good for the middle-school kids because it allows them to research which high school wo... BILL BROWN As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun. AL YANKOVIC I'm just doing the show for a while, might do another 'Joe Dirt' movie in the summer. That's about i... DAVID SPADE I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and th... CANDACE CAMERON BURE In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying bu... RAY ROMANO In class work, it is easy to learn only what is needed for a grade. 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REBECCA BLACK Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, a... REBECCA SOLNIT When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they... REBECCA MAKKAI Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough ... REBECCA ROMIJN Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. REBECCA LOOS I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was. REBECCA LOOS I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't b... REBECCA LOOS I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame... REBECCA LOOS I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me. REBECCA LOOS I did not know what my future was going to hold. REBECCA LOOS I am utterly in love with my son and my boyfriend and live in the most magical place on Earth. I'... REBECCA LOOS As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentif... REBECCA WELLS Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mech... REBECCA MACKINNON Right after September 11, 2001, there weren't really any blogs in China, but there were a lot of... REBECCA MACKINNON Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see. REBECCA MACKINNON The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the ... REBECCA MACKINNON I don't think there's any serious discussion inside the Chinese government about liberalisin... REBECCA MACKINNON The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where... REBECCA MACKINNON The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global e... REBECCA MACKINNON Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and ... REBECCA MACKINNON Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they... REBECCA HALL Since 'Christine' started screening, I'm overwhelmed by the response from women and men ... REBECCA HALL I really think that 'Christine' is one in a million in terms of independent or studio. REBECCA HALL These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if techn... REBECCA MCNUTT The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany. REBECCA SOLNIT I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three ... REBECCA SOLNIT If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it con... REBECCA MACKINNON I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular... REBECCA HALL I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to... REBECCA GAYHEART An airplane should never lean too much to the left or the right, because it puts every passenger int... REBECCA MCNUTT