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I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and manage... GEORGE LUCAS I was heartened by the amount of time he spent talking about competitiveness. To hear him focus on m...
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When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very a... CLINT EASTWOOD
While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had t... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all d...
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I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school wa... HAROLD PINTER
I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at m... RODNEY BROOKS I admit it in school I was an underachiever and it was so easy to do.
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URSULA BURNS You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band a...
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TIM SPENCER
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I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my... ASHWIN SANGHI I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this ...
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Being an actress wasn't realistic. I knew that I was going to have to do it in a way that would ... GINA RODRIGUEZ I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate...
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Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block... DANICA MCKELLAR I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, w...
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GEORGE WEAH
I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I w... OWAIN YEOMAN
I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dr... POOJA HEGDE
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NORAH O'DONNELL
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MITCH MCCONNELL
I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go t... SHAILENE WOODLEY I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it ...
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I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy. I was a bit of a goth with purple hair, and... CHRISTINA HENDRICKS As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called '...
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CURTIS BARFIELD
I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher sayin... NATHAN FIELDER Growing up, I think the competition at a young age with the programs here, I was able to compete wit...
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DARBY STANCHFIELD Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
SARA PAXTON
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I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles. BETH HENLEY I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', ...
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STACEY FARBER
When I tell people I'm a space scientist studying asteroids, they sometimes assume I'm a sup... CARRIE NUGENT
I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and ... CARLI LLOYD
I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making... LEE UNKRICH I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,2...
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I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to sch... LAKE BELL I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I...
BIG SEAN
I was good at math and science, and it was expected that I would attend the University of Washington... ROBERT LUCAS, JR. I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
URSULA ANDRESS
What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to und... GINNI ROMETTY
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I... KELSEA BALLERINI
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University o... ELIZABETH EDWARDS
I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I gra... ODETTE ANNABLE Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.
DAVID CRANE
I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked ... NOLAN GERARD FUNK Since I have been gone so long, my greatest memories are in high school my growing up, ... I was inv...
JOE SEARS
I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my voca... DIANE KRUGER I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a...
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RUPERT EVANS
He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who ... RYAN GIGGS Then at high school I got an electric guitar and a book with some photos of Eddie Van Halen in it an...
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CHELSEA PERETTI A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group o...
KEAHU KAHUANUI
Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of thi... BRIAN ACTON It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost ...
PETER BLAIR HENRY
As I was growing up, French was the language in the house, so when I started school there were lots ... ALISON MOYET
It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis... DAVID CASSIDY
I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays. CASEY WILSON My dad said, 'Go to college and take whatever you want.' So, I went to the University of Mia...
RAY LIOTTA
