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My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then f... REBECCA FERGUSON I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school. CELIA IMRIE I went to boarding school in Somerset and loved it so much that my teachers had to make me phone hom... ELLA EYRE EVANNA LYNCH As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actual... KAREN ABBOTT For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short st... LAURA HILLENBRAND I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it. DANIEL S. LOEB BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I... CORY HARDRICT IRINA SHAYK SHELLY-ANN FRASER-PRYCE I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I jus... TONY GWYNN Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself. ANTONY TUDOR AL FRANKEN BARRY WHITE NICOLA ADAMS Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems fro... KAREN O STORMZY MARTINA MCBRIDE CHARLES SCHWAB I did a lot of choral music in high school, and that was kind of my primary, stable outlet for music... AUTRE NE VEUT I remember, the first time I came to the United States in 1996, I didn't speak a word of English... JUANES My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old. DACRE MONTGOMERY ELIZABETH WILSON GARY HAMEL ADAM HAMILTON NORM CROSBY Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career i... RONNIE SPECTOR WARREN BEATTY TAVI GEVINSON MICHAEL IGNATIEFF MIKA BRZEZINSKI CHARLI XCX Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football b... KENNY CUNNINGHAM KATIE MCGRATH I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my ... TALULAH RILEY JUNIOR SEAU When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offer... CHANDRA WILSON STEFANO LANGONE OLLY MURS RADHANATH SWAMI My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a ba... DANIELLA ALONSO I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. M... ALICE MCDERMOTT I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to Ne... MANISH DAYAL I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west L... BEL POWLEY AILYN PEREZ In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I... GOODLUCK JONATHAN BLAKE LIVELY CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY SCOTTY MCCREERY BEBE REXHA JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD BLAKE LIVELY My dad discouraged me and my older sister watching too much TV. I don't want to portray them as ... GEORGIA KING I didn't win Class President in tenth grade. I was too chubby to win a role in the school play &... GRETCHEN CARLSON A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation. RYNE SANDBERG SHARON JONES My grandparents actually, whenever they got the chance, took me to Broadway, but that started when I... SHANICE WILLIAMS SANJEEV BHASKAR My education started with Latin taught at home by a governess, I can't imagine why, and for some... TIM HUNT I grew up in a commissioned house in the next suburb over, Mount Abbot. It was a two-bedroom house w... SONNY BILL WILLIAMS When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I,... DAN PINK I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save ti... STACEY FARBER MANU BENNETT MARLO THOMAS I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorit... BRIAN SETZER I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven'... DAVID SMALL SHANLEY CASWELL Most of my teachers didn't like me. I didn't get good grades because I pretty much lived at ... TREVOR MOORE It was just music all day... My neighbors were musicians, and my brother and my family and everybody... TROMBONE SHORTY In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this compa... KAREN KAIN R. A. SALVATORE OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN Oh my God, I used to get heartburn and all sorts of indigestion and stuff because I didn't feel ... KRISTIN CAST I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y... CHARLIE EBERSOL In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how ba... EMILY WATSON CAMERON RUSSELL I started training with school friends and, one by one, they all dropped out. When we became teenage... JESSICA ENNIS-HILL When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of ... MAHESH BABU STEVE CARELL FRANK ABAGNALE
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