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GARRETT CLAYTON I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as ... BEN SCHNETZER When I was a baby, my mom used to have a dance school, and she used to teach classes there. We didn&... AFROJACK I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn't the smartest thing. So I never g... REMY MA When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn'... FAITH FORD You don't want to have any negativity in your life. Continue to push. Continue to be patient. An... STEFON DIGGS When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams. ALAN JACKSON When I was on the radio, I used to be able to go a lot farther than I can now. You don't really ... JIMMY KIMMEL You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You do... KAREN BENDER My mom thought I could dance because I used to dance to this Janet Jackson song she'd play when ... TOM HOLLAND What people don't realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you ... MEGAN FOX I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. Tha... CRYSTAL REED I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle sch... CAMILA CABELLO When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal soc... CATHY RIGBY I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pic... SEBASTIAN THRUN When you're sleeping or getting up to go to school, that's when we're just leaving the studio, and w... WYCLEF JEAN I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always wr... KAKI KING When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was wor... JONATHAN EVISON When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be ... JENNIE FINCH You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'... IAN MCKELLEN When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have wo... CHRISTINE GREGOIRE When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then... EDGAR WRIGHT You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That'... GEORGE TENET I work 18 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, so I don't have time for a social life. Or any l... CELIA HAMMOND I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every sum... CHRISTOPHER REEVE I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly ... LARS MIKKELSEN I actually have all these tapes, from when I was five, from when I was 10, and from when I was 15, t... JENS LEKMAN I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think... JIDENNA You know, I think there was a point in time when people didn't really understand how birth certi... JAN BREWER Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we... J MASCIS If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? JOHN WOODEN When I was 15, I didn't think I was the prettiest at all. But then something happened when I was... CYNTHIA ERIVO Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you ... LARRY THE CABLE GUY I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little c... JENNIFER SAUNDERS 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 I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in... ADRIANA TRIGIANI You get those hunger pains. 'I am so hungry. We don't have any food. What are we going to ea... BEN MCLEMORE The idea of making pictures abroad is exciting when you're in Hollywood and have never worked in... JEFFREY HUNTER The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or f... JAMES FRANCO I used to be on dance team in high school; it was called drill team in Texas. And when I started doi... STEPHANIE BEATRIZ I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues... MEGHAN TRAINOR I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know ho... NATHAN OUTTERIDGE I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thi... KASKADE If somebody had told me when I was in graduate school, 'Brian, in 35 years you'll get a chan... BRIAN BINNIE When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ... B. B. KING It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do. QUINCY JONES Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don'... MICHAEL J. FOX I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think i... HUGH JACKMAN A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look ... JANE SEYMOUR You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don&... EMIL ZATOPEK I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn... AUDREY HEPBURN Eventually when numbers are very high the plant looks near death. Then you have a real disaster on y... GREG TYLKA Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase tha... JOHN ABERCROMBIE I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as ... BEN SCHNETZER I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into... SELMA BLAIR some people graduate on time. some others graduate at the right time. no matter about the time you g... NUNKI ARTURA Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You... J. R. SMITH When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care... BARRY GIBB Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore. TONY STEWART I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers a... WILFORD BRIMLEY It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 whe... 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BRUCE WEBER On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any can... DERRICK ROSE When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And... OLIVIA HUSSEY You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you... ROSALYNN CARTER I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year... TAYLOR SWIFT When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards an... TERRY PRATCHETT I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one... ALAN SUGAR In high school, I didn't do too much blocking. It's hard, taking on that inside shoulder from a line... CONREDGE COLLINS If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting st... RICHARD C. ARMITAGE I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible... LADY GAGA I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone. JAMIE BAMBER I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really pers... JEREMY JORDAN When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own. MARC WEBB There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of re... YOTAM OTTOLENGHI I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But w... PETE CARROLL I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can... TOM FORD When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whate... JENNIFER LAWRENCE Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a camera... DENNIS MUREN Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, th... ABIGAIL WASHBURN We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people... ... MALIN AKERMAN Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don... BERENICE BEJO You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands. HUNTER S. THOMPSON When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that... BILL PARCELLS
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LAURA WASSER Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your ... LAURA WASSER Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that k... LAURA WASSER It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going ... LAURA WADE I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport... LAURA WADE I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quit... LAURA WADE Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wou... LAURA WADE It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it? LAURA WADE Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've j... LAURA WADE 'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bas... LAURA WADE I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting... LAURA WADE Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew? LAURA WADE And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written... LAURA WADE In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produ... LAURA WADE I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory. LAURA WADE I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the op... LAURA WADE I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever se... LAURA WADE I don't like writing with real people in mind. LAURA WADE I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like... LAURA WADE It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright. LAURA WADE Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's ... LAURA WADE If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one ... LAURA WADE Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it become... LAURA WADE A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put... LAURA WADE I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted ima... LAURA WADE I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was ... LAURA WADE I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us. LAURA WADE Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted. LAURA VANDERVOORT I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so muc... LAURA VANDERVOORT I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I con... LAURA VANDERVOORT I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19... LAURA VANDERVOORT I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if i... LAURA VANDERVOORT I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt. LAURA VANDERVOORT