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I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower... HOWIE MANDEL
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I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't p... NIA VARDALOS
I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunit... TEDDY THOMPSON
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I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, wh... ANSELM KIEFER I just felt a thump and then Ryan was up and over me. He was upside down and then there a lot of fir...
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When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which wa... KIEFER SUTHERLAND
There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school. ALFIE ALLEN I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good gu...
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If you think about it, I was at college, and then three months later, I was a massive pop star. It&#... ALISON MOYET I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in schoo...
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When I left my Catholic school, I was around 10 or 11 years old, and it started to unravel for me th... MARK RUFFALO
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I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don'... ADAM DRIVER
I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful ad... JOSS WHEDON That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produ...
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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remem... OLIVIA WILDE
When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very a... CLINT EASTWOOD When I started on 'Roseanne,' it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn'...
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising... DAMIEN HIRST
I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. BILL GATES I started reading this book about two months ago, because we meet once a week so it takes a while to...
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DAVID SUCHET I started once a week in North Carolina at a pub called Charlie Goodnight and met a lot of comics th...
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I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions ... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD
When I was growing up, I was told I was stupid and that I would never achieve. I suffered from dysle... HENRY WINKLER
I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to... CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY
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