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“I remember feeling a huge amount of anxiety and worry and pressure. At that point I was headed into acting school. That was 100 percent the only thing I thought I wanted to do. But then I got through my first year of college, and I was, like, humming and rolling around, pretending to be a lion in acting classes at NYU and visiting our classmate Charlie Gregg at Harvard, where he was actually learning things. So I changed my mind: I decided I actually wanted a different kind of education, and that was an incredibly freeing idea.”

Quote by Lauren Graham

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Lauren Graham, born on March 16, 1967, is an accomplished American actress. She gained widespread recognition for her role as Michael Scott in the television series 'The Office', and also had a notable performance in the film 'Forrest Gump'. more

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